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The Society 

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Publication Committee 



WALTER L. WAKEFIELD, . . . Hartford, Conn. 

HANFORD L. CURTIS, .... New Britain, Conn. 

CHARLES B. WHITTELSEY, . . . Hartford, Conn. 



FOUNDERS 

OF 

The Connecticut Society of the Sons of the 
Revolution. 



Instituted May 24, 189}. 
Incorporated September 7, 189). 



Chief Engineer Louis Joseph Allen, U 
Cyrus Sherwood Bradley, 
Augustus Floyd Delafield, . 
Frank Curtis Dowd, 
Thomas Benjamin Fairchild, 
William Freeman French, M.D., 
Reverend Alexander Hamilton, . 
Brigadier-General Dwight Morris, 
Robert Clark Morris, D.C.L., 
Edward Wood Riker, . 
Lieut. -Colonel George Bliss Sanford, 
William Henry Sanford, 
Satterlee Swartwout, . 
Jesup Wakeman, .... 
Reverend Henry Nicoll Wayne, . 
Colonel Henry Walton Wessells, 



S.N., 



U.S.A 



Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Southport, Conn. 
Noroton, Conn. 
Madison, Conn. 
Stratford, Conn. 
Noroton, Conn. 
Lyon's Plains, Conn. 
Bridgeport, Conn. 
New York. 
Stamford, Conn. 
Litchfield, Conn. 
Litchfield, Conn. 
Stamford, Conn. 
Southport, Conn. 
New Britain, Conn. 
Litchfield, Conn. 



Officers of the Connecticut Society, 190M904. 



President. 



Hon. Morgan G. Bulkeley, 



Hartford, Conn. 



Vice-President. 



Hon. Daniel N. Morgan, 



Bridgeport, Conn. 



Secretary. 



Walter L. Wakefield, 



Hartford, Conn. 



Assistant Secretary. 



Charles B. Whittelsey, 



Hartford, Conn. 



Treasurer. 



Colonel Henry W. Wessells, 



Litchfield, Conn. 



Registrar. 



Hanford L. Curtis, 



New Britain, Conn. 



Chaplain. 

Reverend Frederick R. Sankord, 



New Haven, Conn. 



Historian. 



Charles B. Whittelsey, 



Hartford, Conn. 



Board of Managers. 



A. Floyd Delafield, 
Isaac W. Birdseye, 
Ransom N. Fitzgerald, 
John S. Jones, . 
David H. Gould, 
Frederick D. Street, 
William F. Waterbury, 
N. Burton Rogers, 
Francis H. Parker, 



Noroton, Conn. 
Bridgeport, Conn. 
Hartford, Conn. 
Westport, Conn. 
Southport, Conn. 
Darien, Conn. 
Stamford, Conn. 
Danbury, Conn. 
Hartford, Conn. 



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SOCIETY OF 

THE SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

STATE OF CONNECTICUT. 

Instituted May 24, 1893. Incorporated September 7, 1893. 



CONSTITUTION. 

Preamble. 

Whereas, it has become evident from the decline of proper 
celebration of such National holidays as the Fourth of July, Wash- 
ington's Birthday, and the like, that popular interest in the events 
and men of the War of the Revolution is less than in the earlier days 
of the Republic; 

And Whereas, this lack of interest is to be attributed not so 
much to lapse of time as to the neglect on the part of descendants 
of Revolutionary heroes to perform their duty of keeping before the 
public mind the memory of the services of their ancestors, and of the 
times in which they lived, and of the principles for which they con- 
tended ; 

Therefore, the Society of the " Sons of the Revolution," 
has been instituted, to perpetuate the memory of the men who, in mili- 
tary, naval, or civil service, by their acts or counsel, achieved American 
Independence; to promote and assist in the proper celebration of the 
anniversaries of Washington's Birthday, the Battles of Lexington 
and Bunker Hill, the Fourth of July, the Capitulations of Saratoga 
and Yorktown, the formal Evacuation of New York by the British 
Army, on the 3d of December, 1783, as a relinquishment of territorial 
sovereignty, and other prominent events relating to or connected with 
the War of the Revolution ; to collect and secure for preservation the 
manuscript rolls, records, and other documents and memorials re- 
lating to that War ; to inspire among the members and their de- 



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scendants the patriotic spirit of their forefathers; to inculcate in the 
community general sentiments of Nationality and respect for the 
principles for which the patriots of the Revolution contended ; to as- 
sist in the commemorative celehration of other great historical events 
of National importance, and to promote social intercourse and the 
feeling of fellowship among its members. 

Article I. 

Name of Society. 

The Society shall be known by the name, style, and title of 
" Sons of the Revolution." 

Article II. 

Membership. 

Any male person, above the age of twenty-one years, shall he 
eligible to membership in the " Sons of the Revolution " who is 
descended from an ancestor, as the propositus, who either as a mili- 
tary, naval, or marine officer, soldier, sailor, or marine, or official in 
the service of any one of the thirteen original Colonies or States, or 
of the National Government representing or composed of those 
Colonies or States, assisted in establishing American Independence 
during the War of the Revolution, between the 19th day of April, 
1 775, when hostilities commenced, and the 19th day of April, 1783, 
when they were ordered to cease. 

Provided: That when the claim of eligibility is based on the serv- 
ice of an ancestor in the " minute men," or " militia," it must be 
satisfactorily shown that such ancestor was actually called into the 
service of the State or United States, and performed garrison or field 
duty ; and 

Provided further: That when the claim of eligibility is based on 
the service of an ancestor as a " sailor " or " marine " it must in like 
manner be shown that such service was other than shore duty and 
regularly performed in the Continental Navy, or the Navy of one of 
the original thirteen States, or on an armed vessel, other than a mer- 
chant ship which sailed under letters of marque and reprisal, and that 
such ancestor of the applicant was duly enrolled in the ship's com- 
pany, either as an officer, seaman, or otherwise than as a passenger; 
and 



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Provided further: That when the claim of eligibility is based on 
the service of an ancestor as an " official " such service must have been 
performed in the civil service of the United States, or of one of the 
thirteen original States, and must have been sufficiently important in 
character to have rendered the official specially liable to arrest and 
imprisonment, the same as a combatant, if captured by the enemy, as 
well as liable to conviction of treason against the Government of 
Great Britain. 

Service in the ordinary duties of a civil office, the performance of 
which did not particularly and effectively aid the American Cause, 
shall not constitute eligibility. 

In the construction of this article, the Volunteer Aides de Camp 
of General Officers in Continental Service, who were duly announced 
as such, and who actually served in the field during a campaign, shall 
be comprehended as having performed qualifying service. 

The civil officials and military forces of the State of Vermont, 
during the War of the Revolution, shall also be comprehended in the 
same manner as if they had belonged to one of the thirteen original 
States. 

No service of an ancestor shall be deemed as qualifying service 
for^membership in the " Sons of the Revolution " where such 
ancestor, after assisting in the cause of American Independence, shall 
have subsequently either adhered to the enemy, or failed to maintain 
an honorable record throughout the War of the Revolution. 

No person shall be admitted unless he be eligible under one of the 
provisions of this Article, nor unless he be of good moral character 
and be judged worthy of becoming a member. 

Article III. 

Officers. 

The officers of the Society of the " Sons of the Revolution " 
shall be a President, a Vice-President, a Secretary, a Treasurer, a 
Registrar, and a Chaplain, who shall be chosen by ballot at every 
annual meeting from among the members thereof. 

Article IV. 

Board of Managers. 

The Board of Managers of the Society shall be fifteen, namely : 
the President, the Vice-President, the Secretary, the Treasurer, the 



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Registrar, and the Chaplain, ex officio, and nine others who shall 
be chosen by ballot at every annual meeting from among the mem- 
bers of the Society. 

Article V. 

Admission of Members. 

Every application for membership shall be made in writing, sub- 
scribed by the applicant, and approved by two members over their 
signatures. Applications shall contain, or be accompanied by, proof 
of eligibility, and such applications and proofs shall be submitted to 
the Board of Managers, who shall have full power to determine the 
qualifications of the applicant. 

Payment of the initiation fee and subscription to the declaration 
required by the Constitution of this Society shall be a pre-requisite of 
membership. 

Article VI. 

Declaration. 

Every member shall declare upon honor that he will endeavor to 
promote the purposes of this Institution and observe the " Constitu- 
tion " and " By-laws " of this Society, and, if he be a citizen of the 
United States, shall declare that he will support the Constitution of 
the United States. Such declaration shall be in writing, and sub- 
scribed by the member making it. 

Article VII. 

Institution Considered. 
At every meeting the purposes of the Institution will be fully 
considered and the best measures to promote them adopted. No 
question, however, involving the party politics of the day within the 
United States shall ever be discussed or considered in any meeting of 
the " Sons of the Revolution." 

Article VIII. 

Commemorations. 

It shall be a standing Regulation that the members shall, when 
practicable, hold a commemorative celebration and dine together at 
least once every year. 



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Article IX. 



Seal. 

The seal of the Society of the " Sons of the Revolution " 
shall be one and seven-eighths of an inch in diameter, and shall con- 
sist of the figure of a " Minute-man " in Continental uniform, 
standing on a ladder leading to a belfry, and holding in his left hand a 
musket and an olive branch, and grasping in his right hand a bell 
rope. Above, the cracked "Liberty bell"; issuing therefrom a rib- 
bon, bearing the motto of the "Sons of the Revolution": 
" Exegi Monumentum ZEre Perennius." Across the top of the lad- 
der, on a ribbon, the figures " 1776," and at the left of the Minute- 
man, and also on a ribbon, the figures " 1883," the year of the Cen- 
tennial commemoration of the permanent evacuation by the British 
army of American territory; the whole encircled by a band three- 
eighths of an inch wide ; thereon at the top thirteen stars of five 
points each, and at the bottom the legend, " Sons of the Revo- 
lution "; the following being a facsimile thereof: 




The Secretary shall be the custodian of the seal, which shall be 
identical in every particular with this description. 

Article X. 

Insignia. 

The insignia of the " Sons of the Revolution " shall consist 
of a badge pendant from the ribbon by a ring of gold. • 

The badge shall be elliptical in form, with escalloped edges, one 
and one-quarter inches in length and one and one-eighth inches in 
width ; the whole surmounted by a gold eagle, with wings displayed, 
inverted. On the obverse side a medallion of gold in the center, el- 



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liptical in form, bearing on its face the figure of a soldier in Conti- 
nental uniform, with musket slung. Beneath, the figures " 1775"; 
the medallion surrounded by thirteen raised gold stars of five points 
each upon a border of dark blue enamel. 

On the reverse side, in the center, a medallion, corresponding in 
form to that on the obverse, and also in gold, bearing on its face 
Houdon's portrait of Washington in bas relief, encircled by the 
legend, " Sons of the Revolution." Beneath, the figures " 1883," 
and upon the reverse of the eagle, the number of the particular badge 
engraved ; the medallion surrounded by a plain gold border conform- 
ing in dimensions to the obverse, upon which members may have 
their names engraved in script. 

The ribbon shall be dark blue, ribbed and watered, edged with 
buff, one and one-half inches wide and one and one-half inches in 
displayed length. 

The insignia shall be worn by the members conspicuously and only 
on the left breast on all occasions when they shall assemble as such 
for any stated purpose or celebration. The badge shall never be 
worn as an article of jewelry. 

The Treasurer of the Society shall procure and issue the insignia 
to the members and shall keep a record of all issued by him. 

Such insignia shall be returned to the Treasurer of the Society by 
any member who may formally withdraw or resign or be expelled, 
but otherwise it shall be deemed an heirloom. 

No member shall receive more than one badge, unless to replace 
one, the loss or destruction of which shall first be satisfactorily es- 
tablished. 

On occasions other than the meetings for any stated purpose or 
celebration, members may wear a rosette of the prescribed ribbon 
arid pattern in the upper buttonhole of the left lapel of the coat. 

The Treasurer shall procure and issue the rosettes to members. 

Article XI. 

Alterations and Amendments. 

No alteration nor amendment of the Constitution of this Society 
shall be made unless notice thereof shall be duly given in writing, 
signed by the member proposing the same, at a meeting of the So- 
ciety, nor unless the same shall be adopted at a subsequent meeting, 
held at least thirty days after such notice, by a vote of three-fourths 
of the members present. 



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BY-LAWS. 



Section I. 

Initiation Fee, Dues, and Contributions. 

The initiation fee shall be two dollars; the annual dues, three 
dollars, which shall be payable on or before the first day of January 
in every year. The initiation fees and dues must accompany every 
application for membership. The payment at one time of forty 
dollars shall henceforth exempt the member so paying from the pay- 
ment of annual dues. 

Any member who may contribute one hundred and fifty dollars 
to the " Permanent Fund " of the Society shall be exempt from the 
payment of annual dues, and this exemption shall extend in per- 
petuity to his lineal successors in membership from the same pro- 
positus, one at a time, who may be selected for such exemption by the 
Society. 

Section II. 

Permanent Fund. 

There shall be a " Permanent Fund," to be derived from contri- 
butions, and to remain forever to the use of the Society, the income 
only of which shall be expended. 

Section III. 

President. 

The President, or in his absence the Vice-President, or in his 
absence a chairman pro tempore, shall preside at all meetings of the 
Society and of the Board of Managers, and shall exercise the usual 
functions of a presiding officer, under general parliamentary rules, 
subject to an appeal to the Society in proper cases under those 
rules. The President shall be, ex officio, a member of all committees 
other than the Committee on Nominations. He shall have power to 



16 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

convene the Board of Managers and appoint the place of such meeting 
when called by him. 

He shall also perform such other representative duties on behalf 
of the Society, either personally or by correspondence, as it or the 
Board of Managers may find desirable or necessary, or as customarily 
appertain to his office, and he shall enforce a strict observance of the 
Constitution and By-laws of the Society. 

In case of his decease, resignation, neglect to serve, or inability 
from any cause to act as President, the duties of the office shall de- 
volve on the Vice-President until the vacancy caused by such decease, 
resignation, or neglect to serve shall be filled, or until the inability 
shall cease. 

Section IV. 

Secretary. 

The Secretary shall conduct the general correspondence of the 
Society and keep a record thereof. He shall notify all qualified and 
accepted candidates of their admission, and perform such other duties 
as the Society or Board of Managers or his office may require of him. 
He shall have charge of the seal, certificates of incorporation, by-laws, 
historical and other documents and records of the Society other than 
those required to be deposited with the Registrar, and shall affix the 
seal to all properly authenticated certificates of membership and trans- 
mit the same without delay to the member for whom it shall be 
issued or to his proper representative. He shall also notify the 
Registrar of all admissions to membership, and transmit to him the 
applications and proofs of eligibility of all persons so admitted. He, 
together with the presiding officer, shall, when necessary, certify all 
acts of the Society, and, in proper cases, authenticate them under 
seal. He shall have charge of all printing and publications directed 
by the Society or by the Board of Managers. He shall give due notice 
of the time and place of all meetings of the Society and of the Board 
of Managers, and shall attend the same. He shall keep fair and 
accurate records of all the proceedings and orders of the Society and 
the Board of Managers, and shall give notice to the several officers 
of all votes, orders, resolves, and proceedings of the Society or of 
the Board of Managers, affecting them or appertaining to their re- 
spective duties; and at the annual meeting, and oftencr if required, 
shall report to the Society the names of those candidates who have 
been admitted to membership, and also the names of those members 



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whose resignations or voluntary withdrawals have been consented to 
and accepted, and also the names of those members who have been ex- 
pelled or dropped for non-payment of dues or for failure to sub- 
stantiate claim of descent. In his absence from any meeting, a 
Secretary pro tempore may be designated therefor, unless the Assist- 
ant Secretary shall be present to act in such capacity. 

Section V. 

Treasurer. 

The Treasurer shall collect and keep the funds and securities of 
the Society; and as often as those funds shall amount to one hundred 
dollars they shall be deposited in some bank, which shall be designated 
by the Board of Managers, to the credit of the Society of the " Sons 
of the Revolution," and such funds shall be drawn thence on the 
check of the Treasurer for the purposes of the Society only. Out of 
these funds he shall pay such sums only as may be ordered by the 
Society or by the Board of Managers, and shall perform such other 
duties as the Society or Board of Managers or his office may require 
of him. He shall keep a true account of his receipts and payments, 
and, at each annual meeting, render the same to the Society with a 
full statement of the financial condition of the Society, when a com- 
mittee shall be appointed to audit his accounts. 

For the faithful performance of his duty he shall give such se- 
curity as the Society, or Board of Managers in lieu of its action 
thereon, may from time to time require. 

Section VI. 

Registrar. 

The Registrar shall receive from the Secretary, file and keep on 
record, all the proofs upon which memberships have been granted, 
declarations of members on admission of adherence to the Constitu- 
tion and By-laws of the Society, together with a list of all diplomas 
countersigned by him, and all documents, rolls, or other evidences of 
service in the War of the Revolution of which the Society may become 
possessed ; and he, under the direction of the Board of Managers, 
shall make or cause to be made for file in his office, copies of such 
original or certified documents as the owners thereof may not be will- 
ing to leave permanently in the keeping of the Society. 



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Section VII. 
Chaplain. 

The Chaplain shall be a regularly ordained minister of a Chris- 
tian denomination, and it shall be his duty to open and close all 
meetings with customary chaplaincy services and perform such other 
duties as ordinarily appertain to such office. 

Section VIII. 
Historian. 

The Board of Managers shall have power to appoint a Historian, 
who shall keep a detailed record, to be deposited with the Secretary, 
of all the historical and commemorative celebrations of the Society ; 
and he shall edit and prepare for publication such historical ad- 
dresses, essays, papers, and other documents of a historical character, 
other than a Registrar of Members, as the Secretary may be re- 
quired to publish ; and at every annual meeting, if there shall be a 
necrological list for the year then closing, he shall submit the same, 
with carefully prepared biographies of the deceased members. 

Section IX. 
Assistant Secretary. 

The Board of Managers shall have power to appoint an As- 
sistant Secretary, who shall assist the Secretary in the performance 
of such duties of that office as the latter may from time to time de- 
volve upon him, and may, in such cases, give required notices and 
certify and authenticate, when necessary, any acts, documents, or 
records of the Society. 

In case of the absence of the Secretary from any meeting of the 
Society or of the Board of Managers, or of his decease, resignation. 
neglect to serve, or inability from any cause to act in that capacity, the 
duties of the office shall devolve on the Assistant Secretary until the 
Secretary shall return, or until the vacancy caused by such decease, 
resignation, or neglect to serve shall be filled, or until the inability 
shall cease. 

Section X. 

Board of Managers. 

The Board of Managers shall judge of the qualifications of every 
candidate who shall make proper application for admission to the 



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Society, and shall have power to admit him to membership therein, 
if found eligible under the Constitution of this Society. Three 
negative votes shall be a rejection of the applicant. 

They may, through the Secretary, call special meetings of the 
Society at such times as they may see fit, and they may arrange for 
commemorative celebrations by the Society. 

They shall recommend plans to the Society for promoting its 
purposes, and, when practicable, may digest and prepare business for 
its meetings, and shall supervise all publications issued in its name, 
and decide whether copies of records or other documents or papers 
may be furnished on request of any party in cases not pertaining 
directly to the business of the Society and the proper conduct of its 
affairs. 

They shall generally superintend the interests and shall have the 
control and management of the affairs and funds of the Society. 
They shall also perform such duties as may be prescribed by the 
Constitution and By-laws, or required by any Standing Rule or Re- 
solve of the Society; provided, however, that they shall at no time 
be required to take any action nor contract any debt for which they 
shall be jointly or severally liable. They shall be competent to 
consent to and to accept the resignation or voluntary withdrawal 
from membership of any enrolled member of the Society. 

They may require the attendance* of any member of the Society, 
or any official or committee thereof, at any meeting, for consultation 
and advice. 

The Board of Managers shall meet as often as they may desire, 
or at the call of the President, or upon the written request of any 
three members of the same addressed to the Secretary. 

A majority of the Board of Managers shall be a quorum for the 
transaction of business. 

At every annual meeting they shall submit to the Society a general 
report of their proceedings during the year then closing, and at such 
other time as may be required by the Society. 

Section XI. 

Expulsion and Suspension. 

The Board of Managers shall have power to expel any enrolled 
member of this Society who, by a conduct inconsistent with a gentle- 
man and a man of honor, or by an opposition to the interests of the 
community in general or of this Society in particular, may render 



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himself unworthy to continue a member, or who shall persistently 
transgress, or, without good excuse, willfully neglect or fail in the 
performance of any obligation enjoined by the Constitution or By- 
laws or any Standing Rule of this Society. Provided, that such 
member shall have received at least ten days' notice of the com- 
plaint preferred against him, and of the time and place for hearing 
the same, and have been thereby afforded an opportunity to be heard 
in person. 

Whenever the cause of expulsion shall not have involved turpitude 
nor moral unworthiness, any member thus expelled may, upon the 
unanimous recommendation of the Board of Managers, but not 
otherwise, be restored to membership by the Society at any meeting. 

The Board of Managers shall also have power to drop from the 
Roll the name of any enrolled member of the Society who shall be at 
least two years in arrears in the payment of dues, and who, on notice 
to pay the same, shall fail and neglect to do so within ten days there- 
after, and upon being thus dropped, his membership shall cease and 
determine, but he may be restored to membership at any time by the 
Board of Managers, on his application therefor, and upon his payment 
of all such arrears and of the annual dues from the date when he 
was dropped to the date of his restoration. The Board of Managers 
ma}' also suspend any officer from the performance of his duties, for 
cause; which proceeding must be reported to the Society and acted 
upon by it within thirty days, either by rescission of the suspension 
or removal of the suspended officer from office, or otherwise the sus 
pension shall cease. 

Section XII. 

Vacancies and Terms of Office. 

Whenever an officer of this Society shall die, resign, or neglect to 
serve, or be suspended, or be unable to properly perform the duties 
of his office, by reason of absence, sickness, or other cause, and when- 
ever an office shall be vacant, which the Society shall not have filled 
by an election, the Board of Managers shall have power to appoint 
a member to such office pro tempore, who shall act in such capacity 
until the Society shall elect a member to the vacant office, or until 
the inability due to " suspension, absence, sickness, or other cause " 
shall cease. Provided, however, that the office of President or Sec- 
retary shall not thus be filled by the Board of Managers when there 
shall be a Vice-President or Assistant Secretary to enter upon the 
duties of those offices respectively. 



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In like manner, the Board of Managers may supply vacancies 
among its members, under the same conditions and limitations ; and 
in case any member thereof, other than an officer, shall be absent 
from three consecutive meetings of the same, his place therein may 
be declared vacant by the Board of Managers and filled by an ap- 
pointment which shall continue in full effect until the Society shall 
elect a successor. 

Subject to these provisions, all officers of the Society, and the 
members of the Board of Managers, shall, from the time of their elec- 
tion or appointment, continue in their respective offices until the next 
annual meeting, and until their respective successors shall be duly 
chosen. 

Section XIII. 

Resignation. 

No resignation or voluntary withdrawal from membership of any 
member enrolled in this Society shall become effective as a release 
from the obligations thereof unless consented to and accepted by the 
Board of Managers. 

Section XIV. 

Disqualification. 

No person who may be enrolled as a member in this Society shall 
be permitted to continue in membership where the proofs of claim of 
qualification by descent shall be found to be defective and insufficient 
to substantiate such claim, or not properly authenticated. The So- 
ciety, or the Board of Managers, may, at any time after thirty days' 
notice to such person to properly substantiate or authenticate his 
claim, require the Secretary to erase his name from the list of mem- 
bers, and such person shall thereupon cease to be a member: Pro- 
vided, he shall have failed or neglected to comply satisfactorily with 
such notice. 

Where the Board of Managers shall direct the erasure of a per- 
son's name for a cause comprehended under this section, such person 
shall have a right of appeal to the next annual meeting of the So- 
ciety ; but he shall not be restored to membership unless by a vote of 
three-fourths of the members present on that occasion, or at a subse- 
quent meeting to which the consideration of the appeal may have 
been specifically postponed. 



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Section XV. 

Annual and Special Meetings. 

The Society shall hold an annual meeting at the headquarters of 
the Society in the Nathan Hale Schoolhouse in the town of East 
Haddam in the month of June, 1901, and each year thereafter at the 
call of the Board of Managers, at which a general election of officers 
and managers by ballot shall take place. 

In such election the polls shall be open one and one-half hours, 
and a majority of the ballots given for any office or for a manager 
shall constitute a choice therefor; but, if on the first ballot no mem- 
ber shall receive such a majority, then a further balloting, in such 
case, shall forthwith take place, in which a plurality of votes given 
shall determine the choice therefor. During any election the regular 
Order of Business may be proceeded with. 

Special meetings shall be held by direction of the Board of 
Managers, or upon the written request of thirty members of the 
Society, at such time and place as said Board may direct. At such 
special meeting no business shall be transacted except such as shall be 
specified in the notice therefor. 

One week's notice of time and place of annual or special meet- 
ings shall be given by mailing through the post-office in said city a 
written or printed notice to every member of the Society. 

At all meetings of the Society the members present shall con- 
stitute a quorum for the transaction of business. 

The meetings of the Society for business shall be generally con- 
ducted according to parliamentary law and the following Order of 
Business shall, as far as the same may be applicable, be followed: 

Order of Business. 

1. Meeting called to order by Presiding Officer. 

2. Prayer by the Chaplain. 

.}. Reading of minutes of prior meetings not previously acted 
upon. 

4. Election of officers and managers, when necessary. 

5. Communications from or Report of Board of Managers. 
b. Reports of Officers. 

7. Reports of Special Committees. 

8. Unfinished business. 

9. Written communications requiring action of the Society. 

10. Specially noticed business. 

11. Notices of motion for subsequent meeting. 



BY-LAWS. 23 

12. Miscellaneous business. 

13. Reading of the Preamble to this Constitution. 

14. Closing Prayer by the Chaplain. 

Section XVI. 
Service of Notices. 

It shall be the duty of every member to inform the Secretary, by 
written communication, of his place of residence and of any change 
thereof, and of his post-office address. 

Service of any notice under this Constitution or By-laws upon 
any member of the Society, addressed to him at his last recorded place 
of residence or post-office address, and forwarded by mail, shall be 
deemed sufficient service of such notice. 

Section XVII. 

Recommendation of Candidates. 

No member shall approve an application for membership in this 
Society unless he shall know the candidate to be worthy, and shall 
have satisfied himself by due examination of proofs that such candi- 
date is eligible, and will, if admitted, be a desirable member. 

Section XVIII. 
Nominating Committee. 

The Society may, at the annual meeting, choose a Nominating 
Committee, of nine members, to nominate officers and members of the 
Board of Managers, for election at the succeeding annual meeting. 

In case the Society shall not choose such a Committee, the Presi- 
dent shall, prior to every annual meeting, appoint such a Nominating 
Committee of nine members from among the members longest en- 
rolled as such, who may consent to serve on such Committee, ex- 
clusive of officers or members of the Board of Managers. 

The Nominating Committee shall select and nominate a ticket 
of the names proposed to fill the respective offices, to be elected by 
ballot, which ticket shall be printed and distributed as the " Regular 
Ticket " at the ensuing annual election. 

In order to secure as far as may be in the Board of Managers 
stability in procedure and familiarity with precedents in the busi- 
ness affairs of the Society, every Nominating Committee shall, in 
making nominations for the suffrages of the Society of members of said 
Board other than those who are ex officio members, so arrange their 



24 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

recommendations as to provide for the retirement annually of not 
less than three nor more than four of those who shall have served 
longest continuously on said Board, and for the continuance of a pro- 
portionate number. 

Section XIX. 
Decease of Members. 

Upon the decease of any member, notice thereof, and of the time 
and place of the funeral, shall be given by the Secretary by publica- 
tion, and it shall thereupon become the duty of the members, when 
practicable, to attend the obsequies. 

Any member, upon being informed of the decease of a member, 
shall make it his business to see that the Secretary is promptly notified 
of the fact, which fact shall also, in due time, be communicated to the 
Society. 

Section XX. 
Certificate of Membership. 
Every member shall be entitled to receive a certificate of mem- 
bership, which shall be authenticated by the President and Secretary, 
and countersigned by the Registrar of the Society, and to which the 
seal of the " Sons of the Revolution " shall be affixed. The cer- 
tificate shall be in form following: 

"SONS OF THE REVOLUTION." 

Be it known that has been duly 

admitted a member of this Institution in right of the services of 
in the cause of American Independ- 
ence during the War of the Revolution. 

Dated at the city of , this day of 

, in the year of our Lord thousand 

hundred and , and of the In- 
dependence of the United States of America the 



.^^a^-. President of the Society. 



Secretary of the Society. 
Registrar. 



BY-LAWS. 25 

Section XXI. 

Marshal. 

The President of the Society may, from time to time, in his dis- 
cretion, designate a member to act, under his direction, as Marshal 
for the Society in its commemorative celebrations, parades, and other 
meetings, and to perform such duties as usually appertain to such a 
position. 

Section XXII. 

Alterations or Amendments. 

No alteration nor amendment of the By-laws of this Society shall 
be made unless notice thereof shall be duly given in writing, signed by 
the member proposing the same, at a meeting of the Society, nor unless 
the same shall be adopted at a subsequent meeting, held at least thirty 
days after such notice, by a vote of two-thirds of the members present. 



26 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 



INSTRUCTIONS TO APPLICANTS. 



The application must be presented in duplicate upon the forms 
issued by the Society. 

The record of the ancestors' military service should be given fully, 
but concisely. 

It is not necessary to show the pedigree any farther back than the 
ancestor who served in the war. 

The Society does not accept encyclopedias, genealogical works, 
or town or county histories, except such as contain rosters, as authori- 
ties for proofs of service. 

In referring to printed works the volume and page should be given. 
Reference to authorities, in manuscript, must be accompanied by cer- 
tified copies, and authentic family records must be submitted, if re- 
quired. 

Every application must be signed by the applicant, and sworn to by 
him, and it must be indorsed by two members of the Society. When 
the applicant is not personally known to any member of the Society, 
whom he can ask to recommend his application, he must submit to the 
Secretary, when he files his papers, the names of two respectable citi- 
zens of the State to whom he refers by permission. When an applicant 
claims descent from more than one Revolutionary ancestor, then 
" Supplementary " applications must be made in duplicate from each 
ancestor. 

Supplementary claims are to be treated in form and procedure 
precisely as original applications. No extra cost for filing supple- 
mentary claims. 

To begin to make a search for proofs, the applicant must know 
the State the ancestor served from, and in writing officials simply 
ask " for the military services of A. B., said to have been a soldier 
in the Revolutionary War," and they will inform you what rank 
they find and any other data the records show. Also, give the name 
of town or county he served from, if you know. And correspond 
with the following officials, and others, named in the various States, 
for certificates of military service, and the fees for the same : 



INSTRUCTIONS TO APPLICANTS. 27 

Vermont. Write General T. S. Peck, Adjutant-General, Mont- 
pelier. No charge for making research, but where the name is found 
the charge is $2 for furnishing certificate. 

New Hampshire. Write Hon. Ezra S. Stearns, Secretary of 
State, Concord. No charge for making research, but where name is 
found the charge is $3 for furnishing certificate. 

Massachusetts. Write Hon. Wm. M. Olin, Secretary of State, 
Boston. No charge for making research, but where the name is 
found the charge is $1 for furnishing certificate. 

Rhode Island. Write Secretary of State, Providence. No 
charge for making research, but where name is found the charge is 
$1.50 for furnishing certified record. 

Delaware. Write Secretary of State, Dover. The charge for 
furnishing records is two cents per line, and $1 additional for cer- 
tificate. 

Connecticut. This State has published a very complete roster 
containing 27,000 names. 

New York. This State has published a roster containing 
40,000 names. 

New Jersey. This State has very complete records. Write 
General Wm. S. Stryker, Adjutant-General, Trenton. No charge 
for making research or furnishing certificate. 

Pennsylvania. Write Dr. Wm. H. Egle, State Librarian, 
Harrisburg, who will cause a search to be made to find the name, the 
fee for which will be $2, and if the name is found and a certificate 
furnished, $1 more, or $3 in all. 

Maryland. Write Hon. Philip D. Laird, Annapolis, Commis- 
sioner of the Land Office, who will make a research for name, for 
twenty-five cents and seventy-five cents additional for furnishing 
certificate. 

Virginia. The Revolutionary records in this State are very 
meager and it is difficult to find anything, and consists mainly of rec- 
ords of land bounty warrants which were issued by the State to soldiers 
who had served three years or more. Write Mr. W. G. Stannard, 
314 West Cary Street, Richmond, a gentleman highly recommended, 
who has given considerable attention to tracing Virginia genealogies, 
who will make research of everything there is available at the State 
capitol to find the name, for which he charges $1 to be paid in ad- 
vance. If he finds the name he will notify applicant and will charge 
$1.50 more to furnish certificate of whatever he finds. 

North Carolina. The Revolutionary rolls of this State are 
very meager. Mr. T. P. Jerman, Chief Clerk in the State Auditor's 



28 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

Department, Raleigh, will undertake to search for any name, and if 
found will furnish a certificate of the same for $5. .No charge unless 
certificate is made. 

South Carolina. There are no rosters in existence of the 
Revolutionary soldiers from this State so far as known, the principal 
records preserved are those of officers. The New York Historical 
Society, 175 Second Avenue, New York city, has a few volumes 
containing some rosters of officers and privates, but very meager. 

Georgia. Write Wm. Harden, Secretary Georgia Historical 
Society, Savannah, for information of Georgia soldiers. That so- 
ciety has books and manuscripts which contain much useful infor- 
mation relating to the Revolutionary period. 



PENSIONS. 29 



PENSIONS. 



The Government passed no general pension laws until 1818, when 
it granted pensions to those who had served nine months or more in 
the Continental Army or Navy. In 1832 pensions were granted to 
all officers and soldiers, whether Continental, State, or Militia, who 
had served in one or more terms, a period of two years. If the ap- 
plicants have reason to believe their ancestors drew a pension under 
these Acts they can get a record of their military service by writing 
the Honorable Commissioner of Pensions at Washington. There 
is no cost for obtaining this data, and it takes about thirty days to get 
a reply. 

A mistaken idea prevails that there are on file in the Adjutant- 
General's office in Washington complete rosters of the soldiers of the 
Revolutionary War, and that it is only necessary to write to that de- 
partment to obtain a record of the ancestors' service. There are no 
complete rosters of the Revolutionary soldiers in any department of 
the government nor anywhere else. The rosters that were on file in 
the War Department were lost by the destruction of the temporary 
building, in which they were stored, by fire, in 1800, and again by the 
burning of the public buildings, by the British, in 1 8 14. 

The records remaining in the different departments at Washing- 
ton containing the rosters of the Revolutionary soldiers have been 
transferred to the charge of Colonel F. C. Ainsworth, U. S. Army. 
Chief Record and Pension office, War Department, Washington, 
D. C, who will furnish free of charge the record of any Revolution- 
ary soldier whose name may be found on the rolls in his office. 
Colonel Ainsworth has established the following rules : 

The applicant in his request for information must give the name 
of the State his ancestor served from, also give the relationship of the 
ancestor to the applicant, and the purpose for which he desires the 
information. 

The fees should in all cases accompany the inquiry made of offi- 
cials, who will return the money where no charge is made for re- 
search. 



3 o SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 



INSIGNIA. 



Authority has been given by Congress to the officers and men of 
the army and navy to wear the Insignia of the Societies of the Revo- 
lution and other military societies, and thus has given recognition 
to the following: " Society of the Cincinnati," " Sons of the Revo- 
lution," "Society of the War of 1812," "Aztec Society," "Loyal 
Legion," and " Grand Army of the Republic." 

The joint resolution of Congress is as follows: 

i. Joint Resolution granting permission to officers and enlisted 
men of the Army and Navy of the United States to wear badges 
adopted by Military Societies of the Men who served in the War of 
the Revolution, War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the War of 
the Rebellion. 

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America, in Congress assembled: 

That the distinctive badges adopted by Military Societies of Men 
who served in the armies and navies of the United States, in the War 
of the Revolution, the War of 181 2, the Mexican War, and the War 
of the Rebellion, respectively, may be worn upon all occasions of 
ceremony by officers and enlisted men of the Army and Navy of the 
United States, who are members of said organizations in their own 
right. 

Approved, September 25, 1890. 



ROLL OF MEMBERS. 



31 




ROLL OF MEMBERS 

Society of Sons of the Revolution in the State 
of Connecticut. 



Member. Residence. 

Chief Engineer Louis Joseph ) Brooklyn Navy 

Allen, U.S.N., ) Yard. 

William Taylor Andrews, Noroton, Ct. 



Elmer B. Abbey, 



Hartford, Ct. 



Cyrus Sherwood Bradley, Southport, Ct. 



Thaddeus Bell, 
William Leslie Baldwin, 

Wilson Leslie Bell, 
James Barton Bowen, 

Morgan Gardner Bulkeley, 

Thomas Dudley Bradstreet, 
Albert Porter Bradstreet, 
Edward Thomas Bradstreet, 

Henry Baldwin, 

Louis Worthington Button, 



Darien, Ct. 
Stamford, Ct. 

Stamford, Ct. 
Putnam, Ct. 

Hartford, Ct. 

Thomaston, Ct. 

Thomaston, Ct. 

M.D., Meriden.Ct. 

New Haven, Ct. 
Rocky Hill, Ct. 



Ancestor. 



\ Ensign Jacob Strembeck. 

I 



John Dibble, Private, 
Lemuel Taylor, Private. 
Simeon Brooks, Private. 
Ensign Levi Bradley, 
Seth Bradley, 
John Wakeman, 2d, 
John Dimon, 

Corp. Daniel Sherwood, 2d, 
Simeon Couch, 
Gershom Bulkley, 
Simon Couch. 
Thaddeus Bell, Private. 
Lieut. Nathan Baldwin, 
Capt. Charles Pond. 
Thaddeus Bell. 
Abiel Chaffee. 

Lieut. -Col. Eliphalet Bulkeley, 
William Avery Morgan. 
John Bradstreet. 
John Bradstreet. 
John Bradstreet. 
Roger Sherman, a signer of the 
Declaration of Independence. 
Joseph Foster. 



32 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 



Member. 
Col. William Eliphalet 

Adams Bulkeley, 
Rev. George Israel Brown, 

Seymour Percy Bradley, 

Isaac Washington Birdseye, 
Oliver Russell Barlow, 
Eugene Boardman, 
Samuel Newell Brainard, 
Edward Brinley Brinley, 
Daniel Putnam Brinley, 



Henry Waite Bigelow, 



William Francis Joseph 

Boardman, 
Rev. Nathaniel Ellsworth 

Cornwall, 
Charles Francis Chase, 
James Woodbridge Cheney, 
Charles Stanhope Cotton, Jr., 
Rear Admiral Charles Stan- 
hope Cotton, 
Capt. Robert McEwau Clark, 
Robert Moses Clark, 
Frank Storer Caldwell, 
Hanford Lorenzo Curtis, 
Harvey Le Mond Crandall, 

Augustus Floyd Delafield. 

Frank Curtis Dowd, 

George William Dean, 

William Lowell Damon, 
Dr. John Nicoll Dimon, 
John Wilson Drown, 
George Larned Eastman, 
Chauncey Smith Foster, 
Rev. Louis French, 
Rev. Louis Mardenbrough 

French, 
Ransom Ney FitzGerald, 
Walter Colyer Faxon, 

Howard Eugene Gates, M.D. 

John Frederick Gorham, 

David Henry Gould, 



Residence. 
| Hartford, Ct. 

Bellefonte, Pa. 
t Murray Hill Hotel, J 
( New York. ( 

Bridgeport, Ct. 

Waterbury, Ct. 

East Haddam, Ct. 

East Hartford, Ct. 

Riverside, Ct. 

Riverside, Ct. 



Hartford, Ct. 



£ Hartford, Ct. 

■ Stratford, Ct. 

New Britain, Ct. 
So. Manchester, Ct. 
Seattle, Wash. 

[Washington, D. C. 

New Britain, Ct. 
New Britain, Ct. 
New Britain, Ct. 
New Britain, Ct. 
Farmington, Ct. 

Noroton, Ct. j 

Madison, Ct. 

Stamford, Ct. -j 

New Britain, Ct. 
New London, Ct. 
Hartford, Ct. 
Danbury, Ct. 
West Winsted, Ct. 
Noroton, Ct. 

- Noroton, Ct. 



Hartford, 
Hartford, 



Ct. 
Ct. 



Ancestor. 
Lieut.-Col. Eliphalet Bulkeley. 

Major-Gen. Israel Putnam. 
Constant Redfield, 
Isaac Johnson. 
Capt. Joseph Birdseye. 
Ensign Aaron Barlow. 
Capt. James Greene. 
Capt. William Brainard. 
Major-Gen. Israel Putnam. 
Major-Gen. Israel Putnam. 
Major-Gen. Israel Putnam, 
Major Daniel Putnam, 
Major Richard Waite, 
Shubel Brown, 
Asa Bigelow. 
Capt. Elizur Goodrich, 
Capt. John Francis. 

Lieut. Solomon Ellsworth. 

Col. Aaron Davis. 
Capt. Timothy Cheney. 
Sergt. Rowland Cotton. 

Sergt. Rowland Cotton. 

Jonathan Miller. 

Jonathan Miller. 

Corp. Timothy Cadwell. 

Daniel Curtis, 3d. - 

Ebenezer Hill. 

Col. William Floyd, 

Joseph Hallett. 

Col. William Douglass. 

William Dean, 

Ephraim Dean. 

Stephen Damon. 

Thomas Filer. 

David Foster. 

Stephen Eastman, Drummer. 

Eliphalet Clark. 

Lieut. William Glenny. 

Lieut. William Glenny. 

Alexander Keeney, Jr. 
Ebenezer Faxon. 



,, , j ,, , ( Major John Wait Garrett, 

Colorado Springs, Col. 1 , ' „ J 

y 6 ( John Garrett. 



Westport, Ct. 
Southport, Ct. 



Daniel Tredwell. 
j Sergt. Eleazer Gould, 
I Ebenezer Gould. 



ROLL OF MEMBERS. 



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Member. 
Arthur Harold Godard, 
Marshall Winslow Greene, 
William Robbins Goodspeed, 



Rev. Alexander Hamilton, Norwalk, Ct. 



Leigh Richmond Hoyt, 
Harrie Trowbridge Hoyt, 

John Edward Heaton, 

Charles W. Hodge, 
Frank Howard Hotchkiss, 
George James Holmes, M.D. 
Frederick Jabez Huntington 
George Arthur Hadsell, U.S. 
Charles Edwin Hart, 
Charles Kellogg Hunt, 
Eugene K. Herrick, 
John Smith Jones, 
William Hawley Judd, 
Walter Clinton Jones, 

Edwin Augustus Knapp, 

Arthur Guernsey Krom, 
Augustus Knapp, 
George Francis Lincoln, 
Charles Henry Leeds, 
Herbert Lawton, 
George Frederick Lyon, 
William E. Luke, 

Frederick Miles Lincoln, 

Robert Clark Morris, D.C.L.. 
Daniel Nash Morgan, 
Charles Bailey Mason, 
Charles Edmund Mason, 
William Ebenezer Nichols, 
Dr. George H. Noxon, 
Howard G. Proovost, D.D.S. 
Albert Jay Potter, 
Lucius Pinney, 

Francis H. Parker, 



Residence. Ancestor. 

New Britain, Ct. Daniel Pratt. 
New York. Capt. James Greene. 

East Haddam, Ct. Capt. Nathan Goodspeed. 

f Brevet-Col. Alexander Hamilton, 
Major-Gen. Philip Schuyler, 
Brig.-Gen. Nathaniel Woodhull, 
Brigade-Maj. Jonathan Lawrence. 
Sergt. Nathaniel Osborne. 
j Major Benjamin Hickok, 
1 Eliphalet Smith. 
( Capt. John Jennison, 
■) Capt. John Fuller, 
( Corp. Theophilus Goodyear. 
Philo Hodge. 
Henry Baldwin. 
Sergt. Jabez Holmes. 
Brig.-Gen. Jedediah Huntington. 



Lyon's Plains, Ct 
Danbury, Ct. 

New Haven, Ct. 

Roxbury Sta., Ct. 
Thomaston, Ct. 
New Britain, Ct. 
Norwich, Ct. 



A., Washington, D. C. Capt. Phineas Smith. 



New Britain, Ct. 
Winsted, Ct. 
Danbury, Ct. 
Westport, Ct. 
Stamford, Ct. 
Middletown, Ct. 

Greenwich, Ct. 

Danbury, Ct. 
Greenwich, Ct. 
Hartford, Ct. 
Stamford, Ct. 
Stamford, Ct. 
Danbury, Ct. 
Danbury, Ct. 

Hartford, Ct. 

New York, N. Y. 
Bridgeport, Ct. 
Danbury, Ct. 
Danbury, Ct. 
New York. 
Darien, Ct. 
West Winsted, Ct. 
Prattsburg, N. Y. 
So. Manchester, Ct. 

Hartford, Ct. 



Roger Filer. 

Lieut. Russell Hunt. 

Zalmon Taylor. 

Lieut. John Jones. 

Hezekiah Knapp. 

Brig.-Gen. James Clinton. 

Major Samuel Lyon, 

Capt. John Crane, 

Ensign Benjamin Brush, 

Moses Fowler. 

Thomas G. Van Steenbergh. 

Joshua Knapp. 

Stephen Lincoln. 

Lieut.-Col. James Mellen. 

Robert Lawton. 

Nehemiah Webb Lyon. 

Capt. Philip Dodders. 
i Stephen Lincoln, 
■j Sharon Pease, 
( Benjamin Miles. 

Brevet-Maj. James Morris. 

Conductor Zedekiah Morgan. 

Ensign Samuel Curtis. 

Ensign Samuel Curtis. 

Joseph Gillett. 

Dr. Oliver Norton. 

Samuel Proovost. 

Sergt. Jabez Holmes. 

Ephraim Brockway. 
( John Parker, 
I Josiah Lyon. 



34 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 



Member. 
John Marvin Parker, Jr., 
Reuben Booth Pearce, 

Edward Wood Riker, 

Herbert Samuel Rowland. 

George Rapelye, 

George Presbury Rowell, 
Charles Emery Rowell, 
Edward Everett Rowell, 
Edward Everett Rowell, Jr. 
Cephas Brainard Rogers, 
Nathaniel Burton Rogers, 
Lieut. -Col. George Bliss 
Sanford, U.S.A., 

William Henry Sanford, 
Satterlee Swartwout, 



Simon Couch Sherwood, 



Residence. 
Hartford, Ct. 
Danbury, Ct. 

Stamford, Ct. 

Waterbury, Ct. 

Xew Britain, Ct. 

Stamford, Ct. 
Stamford, Ct. 
Stamford, Ct. 
Stamford, Ct. 
Danbury, Ct. 
Danbury, Ct. 

- Litchfield, Ct. 
Litchfield, Ct. 
Stamford, Ct. 



Southport, Ct. 



Abram Baldwin Sturges, M.D., Southport, Ct. 
Frederick D. Street, Darien, Ct. 



Frederick Harriman Sanford, 
Linus Ward Scofield, 
Rev. Frederick R. Sanford, 
William Seward, Jr., 
Walter Henry Tilton, 
William Henry Tubbs, 
Jesup Wakeman, 

Rev. Henry Nicoll Wayne, 



Danbury, Ct. 
Stamford, Ct. 
Lyme, Ct. 
Hartford, Ct. 
New Haven, Ct. 
Hartford, Ct. 
Southport, Ct. 



Col. Henry Walton Wessells, Litchfield, Ct. 

Howard Nichols Wakeman, Southport, Ct. 

Warren Gookin Waterman, Southport, Ct. 
Rev. Edward Livingston Wells, Pittsburg, Pa. 

William F. Waterbury, Stamford, Ct. 

Henry Joseph Warren, Stamford, Ct. 

Walter Leslie Wakefield, Hartford, Ct. 

Rev. Henry Townsend Wayne, Armonk, N. Y. 



Harry Guley Waterbury, Stamford, Ct. 

George Walter Weir, Ridgefield, Ct. 

Frank Kaile Warren, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Charles Belden Warner, East Haddam, Ct 

Frederick William Wakefield, Meriden, Ct. 

Charles Barney Whittelsey, Hartford, Ct. 



Ancestor. 

John Parker. 

Lieut. Jedediah Hull. 
I Sergt. Ananias Weed, 
' James Wallace. 

Capt. Eliphalet Thorp. 
I Capt. Nathaniel Churchill, 
I Ezra White. 

Samuel Rowell. 

Samuel Rowell. 

Samuel Rowell. 

Samuel Rowell. 

Ichabod Rogers. 

Ichabod Rogers, 
j Sergt. Elihu Sanford, 
I Ensign Elihu Lyman. 
J Sergt. Elihu Sanford, 
( Ensign Elihu Lyman. 
j Capt. Abraham Swartwout, 
( Benedict Satterlee. 
f Daniel Sherwood, 
I Corp. Simon Couch, 
| Ensign Ebenezer Jesup. 
I Joseph Hyde. 

Joel Jennings, 
j Capt. Joseph Mather, 
(Rev. Moses Mather, D.D. 

James Sanford. 

Lieut John Waterbury, 2d. 

Capt. Gideon Hotchkiss. 

Chaplain Rev. Wm Seward, 

Michael Carter. 

Daniel Tubbs. 

Gershom Bulkeley. 
Brig-Gen. Nathaniel Woodhull. 
Hrigade-Maj. Jonathan Lawrence. 

Elijah Holcombe. 

John Wakeman. 

Dan Storrs. 

John Hotchkiss. 

Enos Waterbury. 

John Hickok. 
Lieut.-Col. Alexander Campbell. 
Brigade-Maj. Jonathan Lawrence. 
Brig.-Gen. Nathaniel Woodhull. 

Brig.-Gen. David Waterbury. 

Samuel Weir. 

John Hickok. 

Capt. James Green. 
Lieut.-Col. Alexander Canipbell. 

Capt. George Sexton. 



IN MEMORIAM. 



35 



3ln Htwuirurat. 



Brigadier-General DWIGHT MORRIS, Bridgeport, Conn. 

A Founder of the Connecticut Society. 
Died September 26, 1894. 



THOMAS BENJAMIN FAIRCHILD, Stratford, Conn. 

A Founder of the Connecticut Society. 

Died February 7, 1897. 



WILLIAM FREEMAN FRENCH, M.D., Noroton, Conn. 

A Founder of the Connecticut Society. 

Died January 27, 1898. 



NATHAN GILLETTE POND, Stratford, Conn. 
Died July 29, 1894. 



TIMOTHY JONES, Danbury, Conn. 
Died July 21, 1903. 



Colonel HEUSTED W. R. HOYT, Greenwich, Conn. 
Died April 8, 1894. 



Colonel FREDERICK CURTIS JOHNSON, Ansonia, Conn. 
Died December 24, 1896. 



THOMAS RUSSELL HOYT, Danbury, Conn. 
Died June 27, 1896. 



SAMUEL J. BARLOW, Waterbury, Conn. 

Died November 28, 1899. 



General WILLIAM HENRY BULKELEY, Hartford, Conn. 
Died November 7. 1902. 



JULIUS DEMING, Litchfield, Conn. 
Died December 30, 1902. 



JAMES EDMOND MILLER, Danbury, Conn. 
Died June 29, 1902. 



JAMES CAMPBELL, M.D., Hartford, Conn. 
Died October 17, 1899. 



FRANK TREMAN WYCKOFF, Stamford, Conn. 
Died February 19, 1903. 



GEO. F. LINCOLN, Hartford, Conn. 
Died July 23, 1903, at Brussels, Belgium. 



OFFICERS OF THE GENERAL SOCIETY. 37 

General Society of the Sons of the 
Revolution. 



OFFICERS. 

General President, 
Hon. JOHN LEE CARROLL, Ellicott City, 
Of the Maryland Society. 

General Vice-President, 

GARRET DORSET WALL VROOM, Trenton, 

Of the New Jersey Society. 

Second General Vice-President, 

POPE BARROW, Savannah, 

Of the Georgia Society. 

General Secretary, 

JAMES MORTIMER MONTGOMERY, 102 Front St., New York, 

Of the New York Society. 

Assistant General Secretary, 

WILLIAM HALL HARRIS, No. 216, St. Paul St., Baltimore, 

Of the Maryland Society. 

General Treasurer, 
RICHARD McCALL CADWALADER, No. 133, South 12th St.. 

Philadelphia, 
Of the Pennsylvania Society. 

Assistant General Treasurer, 

HENRY CADLE, Bethany, 

Of the Missouri Society. 

General Chaplain, 

Rev. THOMAS EDWARD GREEN, D.D., S.T.D., Cedar Rapids, 

Of the Iowa Society. 

General Registrar, 

WALTER GILMAN PAGE, No. 90 Westland Ave., Boston, 

Of the Massachusetts Society. 

General Historian, 

HENRY WALBRIDGE DUDLEY, No. 23 Michigan Ave., 

Chicago, 

Of the Illinois Society. 



CONSTITUTION OF THE GENERAL SOCIETY. 39 



CONSTITUTION 

OF THE 

GENERAL SOCIETY OF SONS OF THE REVO- 
LUTION. 



It being evident, from a steady decline of a proper celebration of 
the National holidays of the United States of America, that popular 
concern in the events and men of the War of the Revolution is gradu- 
ally declining, and that such lack of interest is attributable, not so 
much to the lapse of time and the rapidly increasing flood of immi- 
gration from foreign countries, as to the neglect, on the part of 
descendants of Revolutionary heroes, to perform their duty in keep- 
ing before the public mind the memory of the services of their an- 
cestors and of the times in which they lived ; therefore, the Society 
of Sons of the Revolution has been instituted to perpetuate the 
memory of the men who, in the military, naval and civil service of the 
Colonies and of the Continental Congress, by their acts or counsel, 
achieved the independence of the country, and to further the proper 
celebration of the anniversaries of the birthday of Washington, and 
of prominent events connected with the War of the Revolution; to 
collect and secure for preservation the rolls, records, and other docu- 
ments relating to that period; to inspire the members of the Society 
with the patriotic spirit of their forefathers ; and to promote the feel- 
ing of friendship among them. 

The General Society shall be divided into State Societies, which 
shall meet annually on the day appointed therefor in their respective 
by-laws, and of tener if found expedient ; and at such annual meeting 
the reasons for the institution of the Society shall be considered, and 
the best measures for carrying them into effect adopted. 

The State Societies, at each annual meeting, shall choose, by a 
majority of the votes present, a President, a Vice-President, a Secre- 
tary, a Registrar, a Treasurer, a Chaplain, and such other officers 
as may by them respectively be deemed necessary, together with a 



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Board of Managers consisting of these officers and of nine other 
members, all of whom shall retain their respective positions until 
their successors are duly chosen. 

Each State Society shall cause to be transmitted annually, or 
oftener, to the other State Societies, a circular letter calling atten- 
tion to whatever may be thought worthy of observation respecting 
the welfare of the Society or of the general union of the States, and 
giving information of the officers chosen for the year; and copies of 
these letters shall also be transmitted to the General Secretary, to be 
preserved among the records of the General Society. 

The State Societies shall regulate all matters respecting their own 
affairs, consistent with the general good of the Society; judge of the 
qualifications of their members or of those proposed for membership, 
subject, however, to the provisions of this Constitution; and expel 
any member who, by conduct unbecoming a gentleman or a man of 
honor, or by an opposition to the interests of the community in 
general or of the Society in particular, may render himself unworthy 
to continue in membership. 

In order to form funds that may be respectable, each member shall 
contribute, upon his admission to the Society and annually thereafter, 
such sums as the by-laws of the respective State Societies may re- 
quire; but any of such State Societies may provide for the endow- 
ment of memberships by the payment of proper sums in capitalization, 
which sums shall be properly invested as a permanent fund, the in- 
come only of which shall be expended. 

The regular meeting of the General Society shall be held every 
three years, and special meetings may be held upon the order of the 
General President or upon the request of two of the State Societies, and 
such meetings shall consist of the General Officers and a representa- 
tion not exceeding five deputies from each State Society, and the neces- 
sary expenses of such meeting shall be borne by the State Societies. 

(The following amendment to the Constitution was proposed at 
the meeting of the General Society held in Denver, Colorado, on 
April i g, 1899, and will be voted on at the next regular meeting: 

" Strike out from the seventh paragraph of the Constitution of 
the General Society the words ' of the General Officers and a repre- 
sentation not exceeding five deputies from each State Society,' and in- 
sert the following: 'of two delegates from each State Society and 
one additional delegate for every one hundred (too) members or 
major fraction thereof: and on all questions arising at meetings of the 
( reneral Society each delegate there present shall be entitled to one 
vote, and no votes shall be taken by States.' ") 



CONSTITUTION OF THE GENERAL SOCIETY. 



41 



At the regular meeting a General President, General Vice-Presi- 
dent, General Second Vice-President, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, 
Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, Registrar, Historian, and Chaplain 
shall be chosen by a majority of the votes present, to serve until the 
next regular general meeting, or until their successors are duly 
chosen. 

At each general meeting the circular letters which have been trans- 
mitted by the several State Societies shall be considered, and all 
measures taken which shall conduce to the general welfare of the 
Society. 

The General Society shall have power at any meeting to admit 
State Societies thereto, and to entertain and determine all questions 
affecting the qualifications for membership in or the welfare of any 
State Society as may, by proper memorial, be presented by such State 
Society for consideration. 

Any male person above the age of twenty-one years, of good 
character, and a descendant of one who, as a military, naval, or 
marine officer, soldier, sailor, or marine, in actual service, under the 
authority of any of the thirteen Colonies or States, or of the Conti- 
nental Congress, and remaining always loyal to such authority, or a 
descendant of one who signed the Declaration of Independence, or of 
one who, as a member of the Continental Congress or of the Con- 
gress of any of the Colonies or States, or as an official appointed by 
or under the authority of any such legislative bodies, actually assisted 
in the establishment of American Independence by services rendered 
during the War of the Revolution, becoming thereby liable to con- 
viction of treason against the government of Great Britain, but re- 
maining always loyal to the authority of the Colonies or States, shall 
be eligible to membership in the Society. 

The Secretary of each State Society shall transmit to the General 
Secretary a list of the members thereof, together with the names and 
official designations of those from whom such members derive claim 
to membership, and thereafter upon the admission of members in each 
State Society, the Secretary thereof shall transmit to the General 
Secretary information respecting such members similar to that herein 
required. 

The Society shall have an insignia, which shall be a badge sus- 
pended from a ribbon by a ring of gold ; the badge to be elliptical in 
form, with escalloped edges, one and one-quarter inches in length, and 
one and one-eighth inches in width ; the whole surmounted by a gold 
eagle, with wings displayed, inverted ; on the obverse side a medallion 



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SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 



of gold in the centre, elliptical in form, bearing on its face the figure 
of a soldier in Continental uniform, with musket slung; beneath, the 
figures " 1775"; the medallion surrounded by thirteen raised gold 
stars of five points each upon a border of dark blue enamel. On the 
reverse side, in the center, a medallion corresponding in form to that 
on the obverse, and also in gold, bearing on its face the Houdon por- 
trait of Washington in bas relief, encircled by the legend, " Sons of 
the Revolution "; beneath, the figures " 1883 "i and upon the reverse 
of the eagle the number of the badge to be engraved ; the medallion 
to be surrounded by a plain gold border, conforming in dimensions to 
the obverse; the ribbon shall be dark blue, ribbed, and watered, 
edged with buff, one and one-quarter inches wide, and one and one- 
half inches in displayed length. 

The insignia of the Society shall be worn by the members on all 
occasions when they assemble as such for any stated purpose or cele- 
bration, and may be worn on any occasion of ceremony ; it shall be 
carried conspicuously on the left breast, but members who are or have 
been officers of the Society may wear the insignia suspended from the 
ribbon around the neck. 

The custodian of the insignia shall be the General Secretary, who 
shall issue them to members of the Society under such proper rules as 
may be formulated by the General Society, and he shall keep a register 
of such issues wherein each insignia issued may be identified by the 
number thereof. 

The seal of the Society shall be one and seven-eighths inches in 
diameter, and shall consist of the figure of a Minute-man in Con- 
tinental uniform, standing on a ladder leading to a belfry; in his 
left hand he holds a musket and an olive branch, whilst his right 
grasps a bell-rope ; above, the cracked Liberty Bell ; issuing therefrom 
a ribbon bearing the motto of the Society, " Exegi monumentum aere 
perennius " ; across the top of the ladder, on a ribbon, the figures 
" 1776"; and on the left of the Minute-man, and also, on a ribbon, 
the figures " 1883," the year of the formation of the Society; the 
whole encircled by a band three-eighths of one inch wide; thereon at 
the top thirteen stars of five points each ; at the bottom the name of the 
General Society, or of the State Society to which the seal belongs. 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 43 



ROSTER 

OF 

ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 



BALDWIN, HENRY. . 

Private Sixth Company, Captain Edward Shipman, Seventh Con- 
necticut Continental Regiment, Colonel Charles Webb, July 
ii, December 18, 1775. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," page 82.) 

Hotchkiss, Frank Howard. 

BALDWIN, NATHAN, Lieutenant. 1 755-1805. 

Appointed Lieutenant with the command of the Fort at Milford, 
and also empowered to cruise in the Sound with the boat be- 
longing to the fort, 1782. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," page 631.) 

Baldwin, Wilson Leslie. 

BARLOW, AARON, Ensign. 1 750-1 800. 

Private Tenth Company, Captain Zalmon Read, Fifth Con- 
necticut Continental Regiment, Colonel David Waterbury; 
discharged November 28, 1775; Ensign Captain John Gray's 
Company, Colonel Samuel Whiting's Regiment Connecticut 
Militia; October 5-October 19, 1777. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 71, 516.) 

Barlow, Samuel J. 

Barlow, Oliver R. 



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SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 



BELL, THADDEUS, Sergeant. 1759-1851. 

Private Captain Gregory's Company, Colonel Sellman's Regi- 
ment, March-April, 1776; private Eleventh Company, Cap- 
tain Jonathan Bell, Ninth Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
Lieutenant-Colonel John Mead commanding, in the service 
at New York, August 13-September 1 1, 1776; private in same 
company in service on the Westchester border October 24- 
December 24, 1 776; private same company, Captain Eli Reed, 
in service on the Westchester border December 27, 1776- 
January 8, 1777; private same company in service January- 
March, 1777; private First Company, Captain Jesse Bell, 
same regiment, Colonel John Mead, March-September, 1777; 
engaged at Ridgefield April 27, and at Compo April 28, 1 777 ; 
Sergeant Eleventh Company, Captain Eli Reed, same regi- 
ment, in service March-June, 1778, and July, 1779, January, 
1780; engaged at Fairfield July 8, and at Norwalk July 12, 
1779; Sergeant same company, Captain Nathaniel Slason, in 
service April-June, 1780, and June-July, 1 781; taken prisoner 
with the congregation of the Church at Middlesex July 22, 
1 781; released December, 1 78 1 ; Sergeant, Captain Jesse 
Bell's company, same regiment, Colonel Steven St. John, 
April-October, 1782. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 456, 487, 488, 650, 662. His appli- 
cation for the pension which he received ; statement Wm. 
Lochren, Commissioner of Pensions, on file.) 

Bell, Clarence W. 

Bell, Thaddeus. 

BIGELOW, ASA. 1 755-1830. 

Private, April, 1775, Lexington Alarm, 10 days' service. As- 
sistant Commissary to Colonel Champion, the Commissary- 
General ; he went several times into New Jersey, Pennsyl- 
vania, and Virginia; enlisted August 3, 1778, Captain Na- 
thaniel Pomeroy's Company, Colonel Samuel Champion's 
Regiment; was discharged September 18, 1778. They en- 
gaged in the attempt to dislodge the British at Newport and 
were present at the battle of Rhode Island, August 29, 1778. 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 45 

(Adjutant-General's Report of Connecticut Men in 
the Revolution, page 531.) 

Bigelow, Henry Waite. 

BIRDSEYE, JOSEPH. 1740-1817. 

Captain Colonel Whiting's Regiment, 4th Militia, commanded 
by Lieutenan-t-Colonel Jonathan Dimon, October, 1777; en- 
listed October 5, discharged October 31; was Captain in 
Colonel Whiting's Regiment at New Haven and Fairfield, 
Conn., in July, 1779, during Tryon's Invasion of Connecticut. 

(Adjutant-General's Report of Connecticut Men in 
the Revolution, pages 515, 518, 548, 550. Orcutt's " His- 
tory of Stratford," pages 381, 1107.) 

Birdseye, Isaac Washington. 

BRADLEY, LEVI. 1758-1829. 

Private Fairfield Coast Guard, November 4, 1776-February 7, 
1777; Private, " Danbury Alarm," April, 1777; engaged at 
Ridgefield. 

(MS. Records Fairfield Coast Guard in Pequot Li- 
brary, Southport ; " Record of Connecticut Men in the 
War of the Revolution," page 629.) 

Bradley, Cyrus Sherwood. 

BRADLEY, SETH, Ensign. 1735- 1798. 

Ensign Thirteenth Company, Captain Samuel Wakeman, Fourth 
Regiment Connecticut Militia, Colonel Gold Selleck Silli- 
man, May, 1774- January, 1778; appointed Ensign Captain 
Eliphalet Thorp's Company, First Battalion Connecticut 
State Troops, Colonel Samuel Whiting, November, 1776; 
resigned. 

(" Colonial Records of Connecticut," Volume 14, 
page 266; "State Record of Connecticut," Volume 1, 
pages 67, 486 ; " Record of Connecticut Men in the War 
of the Revolution," page 424.) 

Bradley, Cyrus Sherwood. 



4 6 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 
BRADSTREET, JOHN. 1718 . 



Private Captain Moses Jewett's Troop of Horse, Third Regi- 
ment Massachusetts Militia, Colonel John Baker, Lexington 
Alarm April, 1775; three days' service; private Captain 
Thomas Mighill's Company, Thirty-eighth Regiment, Col- 
onel Loamun Baldwin. April 23-December, 1 775; private 
Captain Thomas Mighill's Company, Twenty-sixth Regi- 
ment, January, 1776. 

(MS. Revolutionary War Archives of Massachu- 
setts, Volume 12, page 163; Volume 15, page 64; Vol- 
ume 56, page 257 ; Volume 57, file 27 ; Volume 58, file 3, 
page 2 ; certificate of Wm. M. Olin, Secretary of State of 
Massachusetts, on file.) 

Bradstreet, Albert Porter. 

Bradstreet, Edward Thomas, M.D. 

Bradstreet, Thomas Dudley. 

BRAINARD, WILLIAM. 174b 



Ensign Captain John Morgan's Company, Lieutenant-Colonel 
Commandant Levi Wells' Regiment; raised in the spring of 
1780 for service along the western coast; Captain Fifth Com- 
pany in the Twenty-fifth Regiment of Militia ; his com- 
mission was given him by Jonathan Trumbull. 

(Adjutant-General's Report of Connecticut Men in 
the Revolution, page 615.) 

Brainard, Samuel Newei.i.. 

BROCKWAY, EPHRAIM. 17541837- 

Private Captain Conklin's Company of Sharon, Conn., May, 
1776, five months' service; April 1, 1 777-January, 1778, Col- 
onel Enos. 

(Copy of Report of Comptroller of the Treasury 
Department, on file with application.) 

Pinney, Lucius. 



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BROOKS, SIMEON. 1740-18 19. 

Private; enlisted May 8, 1775, Captain Ely's Company, Sixth 
Regiment of Connecticut; discharged October II, 1775; Col- 
onel Samuel H. Parsons; enlisted June- July, 1776, Captain 
Stevens' Company, Colonel Mott's Battalion ; served under 
General Gates at Ticonderoga: retired November, 1776; 
enlisted October 6, 1777, Captain Bristol's Company, Colonel 
Whiting's Regiment, Fourth Connecticut Militia; served at 
Peekskill in October, 1777; discharged December 6, 1777. 

(Adjutant-General's Report of Connecticut Men in 
the Revolution, pages 77, 390, 521.) 

Abbey, Elmer B. 

BROWN, SHUBEL. 1761-1836. 

Private in Colonel Samuel Canfield's Regiment at West Point, 
September, 178 1, from Pomfret, Conn. 

(Adjutant-General's Report of Connecticut Men in 
the Revolution, page 583.) 

Bigelow, Henry Waite. 

BRUSH, BENJAMIN. 

Ensign Captain Charles Smith's Company, Ninth Regiment of 
Militia; marched November 10, 1776; discharged January 
11, 1777. 

(Adjutant-General's Report of Connecticut Men in 
the Revolution, page 489. Adjutant-General's Certifi- 
cate on file with application.) 

Knapp, Edwin Augustus. 

BULKELEY, ELIPHALET, Lieutenant-Colonel. 1746-1816. 

Captain Third Company, Twelfth Regiment Connecticut Mili- 
tia, Colonel Wm. Williams, May, 1773; eleven days in serv- 
ice, Lexington Alarm April, 1775; appointed May, 1776, 
Captain Colonel David Waterbury's Regiment Connecticut 
State Troops ; promoted Lieutenant-Colonel Twenty-fifth 
Regiment Connecticut Militia, Colonel Elias Worthington, 
May, 1780; Deputy to the General Court for Colchester, 
October, 1778, and January, 1779. 



48 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

(" Colonial Records of Connecticut," Volume 14, 
page go; Volume 15, page 300; " Record of Connecticut 
Men in the War of the Revolution," pages 7, 440; " State 
Records of Connecticut," Volume 2, pages 122, 130, 
170.) 

Bulkeley, Morgan Gardner, Hon. 

Bulkeley, William Henry. 

Bulkeley, William Eliphalet Adams. 

BULKLEY, GERSHOM. 1750-1791. 

Private Eighth Company, Captain Jonathan Dimon, Fourth Regi- 
ment Connecticut Militia, Colonel Gold Selleck Silliman, 
May, 1776; private in same company in service in New York, 
1776; in service in Fairfield Coast Guard May 30-November 
1, 8, 27, 1776, January 27-February 10, 1777, and in 1777, 
1778, and 1779, three months in each year, and in 1780, six 
months, and also in 1781 and 1782; private, " Danbury 
Alarm," April, 1777, also in service at the burning of Fair- 
field, July 8, 1779. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," page 616; MS. muster roll in possession 
of Cyrus S. Bradley, Southport; MS. Records Fairfield 
Coast Guard, in Pequot Library, Southport ; application 
of his widow, Amelia Bulkley, for the pension which she 
received ; statement of Greene B. Raum, Commissioner 
of Pensions, on file.) 

Bradley, Cyrus Sherwood. 

Wakeman, Jesup. 

CADWELL, TIMOTHY. 1747-1 787. 

Corporal Captain Abraham Sedgwick's Company ; enlisted Janu- 
ary 19, discharged February 28, 1776; was also enlisted at the 
Lexington Alarm. 

(Adjutant-General's Report of Connecticut Men in 
the Revolution, pages 13, 388, 413.) 

Cadwell, Frank Storer. 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 49 

CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER, Lieutenant-Colonel. 173 1-1807. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Sixth Regiment, Lincoln County, Massa- 
chusetts Militia, 1776-1777. 

(MS. Records State of Massachusetts, Volume 28, 
page 103; Volume 26, page 28; certificate of Wm. M. 
Olin, Secretary of State, on file.) 

Wakefield, Walter Leslie. 

Wakefield, Frederick William. 

CAMPBELL, JAMES, 2D. 1753-1835- 

Private Captain John Perry's Company Massachusetts Militia, 
Lexington Alarm, April, 1775; private Captain John Perry's 
Company, Colonel Timothy Walker's Regiment Massachu- 
setts Militia, April 28, 1775; served three months one week 
and four days ; private Captain John Perry's Company, Twen- 
ty-second Massachusetts Regiment, Colonel Timothy Walker, 
October 6, 1775; served eight months. 

("Records State of Massachusetts," Volume 13, 
page 31 ; Volume 16, page 2; Volume 56, page 136.) 

Campbell, James, M.D. 

CARTER, MICHAEL. 1840. 

Enlisted March, 1781, in Captain McFarland's Company, per- 
forming guard duty at Boston; detached December, 1781, as 
marine under Captain Parks on board Frigate Alliance, thir- 
ty-six guns, Captain Barry ; made three voyages to France and 
captured seven prizes. 

(His application for the pension which he received; 
statement of Wm. Lochren, Commissioner of Pensions, 
on file.) 

Tilton, Walter Henry. 

CHAFFEE, ABIEL. 1761-1847. 

Private Captain John McGregier's Company, Fourth Regiment 
"Connecticut Line," formation of 1777-1781, Colonel John 
Durkee, July, 1779-January, 1780; private Captain William 
4 



jO SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

Judd's Company, Third Regiment " Connecticut Line," 
formation of 1 777-1781, Colonel Samuel Wyllys, July I- 
December II, 1780; private Captain Timothy Allyn's Com- 
pany, Third Regiment " Connecticut Line," formation of 
1 781-1783, Colonel Samuel Blatchley Webb, February b, 
1 78 1 -February, 1782. 

("Records of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 180, 333, 633, 663; his application 
for the pension which he received : statement of Wm. 
Lochren, Commissioner of Pensions, on file.) 

Bowen, James Barton. 

CHENEY, TIMOTHY, Captain. 1731-1795. 

Captain Lexington Alarm, from town of Hartford, April, 177s. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," page 13.) 

Cheney, James Woodbridge. 

CHURCHILL, NATHANIEL. 

Private Captain H. Wells' Company, Colonel Erastus Woll- 
cott's Regiment, at Boston, December, 1775-February. 1776; 
Ensign Second Battalion, Colonel Thaddeus Cook, State 
Regiment, under Generals Spencer and Wooster, 1776-1 777 ; 
Second Lieutenant, Colonel Roger Eno's Regiment, June, 
1777; Captain in Fifteenth Connecticut Militia, 1778. 

(Adjutant-General's Report of Connecticut Men in 
the Revolution, pages 383, 424, 625.) 

Rapelye, George. 



CLARK, ELIPHALET. 1756- 



Private Captain Charles Pond's Company, Sixth Regiment, "Con- 
necticut Line," formation of 1777-1781, Colonel Return 
Jonathan Meigs, October, 1777-May 2, 1780, substitute for 
his brother, Samuel Clark, who had enlisted on May 2, 1777, 
for three years; engaged at storming of Stony Point, July 

15. 1779- 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 51 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 209, 641 ; his application for the pen- 
sion he received ; statement of Wm. Lochren, Commis- 
sioner of Pensions, on file.) 

Foster, Chauncey Smith. 

CLINTON, JAMES, Brigadier-General. 1736-1812. 

Appointed Colonel Third New York Regiment, June 30, 1775, 
and accompanied General Montgomery to Quebec; August 
9, 1776, was made Brigadier-General and was in command 
at Fort Clinton when it was attacked, in October, 1777, by 
the British, under Sir Henry Clinton; was a member of the 
New York Convention that ratified the Constitution of the 
United States. 

Jones, Walter Clinton. 

COTTON, ROWLAND, Sergeant. 1 757-1848. 

Private Captain Stephen Brown's Company, Fourth Regiment 
"Connecticut Line," Colonel John Durkee, April 20, 1777; 
appointed Corporal September 1, 1777, discharged April 20, 
1780; Sergeant Captain Lemuel Clift's Company, First Regi- 
ment " Connecticut Line," Colonel John Durkee, January 
17, 1781-December 31, 1781; Sergeant on roll of Susque- 
hanna Men, in First Connecticut Continental Regiment. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 186, 319, 626; certified copy of state- 
ment of Colonel F. C. Ainsworth, U. S. Army, Chief of 
Record and Pension Office, War Department, on file.) 

Cotton, Charles Stanhope, Captain United 
States Navy. 

Cotton, Charles Stanhope, Jr. 

COUCH, SIMON. 1 729-1809. 

Authorized to raise recruits for the Continental Army, 1 78 1. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," page 629.) 

Bradley, Cyrus Sherwood. 

Sherwood, Simon Couch. 



52 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

COUCH, SIMON, Corporal. 1755-1807. 

Corporal Captain Ezekiel Hull's Company, Third Regiment 
Light Horse, Major Ezra Starr; honorably discharged June 
9, 1783- 

( Original MS. discharge in possession of Cyrus 
Sherwood Bradley, Southport.) 

Bradley, Cyrus Sherwood. 

Sherwood, Simon Couch. 

CRANE, JOHN. 

Captain Colonel Henry Luddington's Seventh Regiment of 
Dutchess County, New York, Militia, General Swartwout's 
Brigade, 1 776-1780. 

( Statement of Record and Pension Office, War De- 
partment, Washington, D. C, on file with application.) 

Knapp, Edwin Augustus. 

CURTIS, DANIEL, 30. 1 737-1795- 

Private. Served as Coast Guard in Stratford in 1778. 

(Adjutant-General's Report of Connecticut Men in 
the Revolution, page 546.) 

Curtis, Hanford Lorenzo. 

CURTIS, SAMUEL, Ensign. 1742-1826. 

Private Captain Noble Benedict's Company, Fifth Continental 
Regiment, Colonel David Waterbun, May n-Octobcr 28, 
1775; Ensign Thirteenth Regiment Connecticut Militia, Au- 
gust 19-September 3, 1776; one of the crew of the Continental 
Frigate Confederacy. 1779; private of a military company 
from the society of Northbury in Waterbury, July 4, 1776. 

("Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 68, 468, 601, 612; " History of Dan- 
bury," pages 55, 57, 58.) 

Mason, Charles Bailey. 

Mason, Charles Edmond. 



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DAVIS, AARON, Colonel. 1 709-1 777. 

Captain Massachusetts Militia, 1775; later Colonel Massachu- 
setts Militia; member Massachusetts Provincial Congress, 
1 774-1 775 ; member Massachusetts General Court, 1 775- 
1776. 

(Journals Provincial Congress, W. Lincoln, 1838; 
Drake's " History of Roxbury," 1878.) 

Chase, Charles Francis. 

DEAN, EPHRAIM. 1759-1804. 

Private Captain Boyd's Company of Drake's Regiment New 
York Troops, 1775. 

(Archives State of New York; "The Revolution," 
under Title " Roster of State Troops," pages 355-6.) 

Dean, George William. 

DEMING, JULIUS, Captain. 1755-1838. 

Captain Commissary Department under Colonel Henry Cham- 
pion ; pensioner under Act of 1832. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 630, 653.) 

Deming, Julius. 

DEMONS-DAMON, STEPHEN. 

Private Captain Elijah Dwight's Company, Massachusetts Mili- 
tia. 

(Revolutionary Records, State of Massachusetts, Vol- 
ume 18, page 148; Copy of Certificate of Secretary Wm. 
N. Olin, on file with application.) 

Damon, William Lowell. 

DIBBLE, JOHN. 1759-1852. 

Private Captain Sylvanus Brown's Company First Battalion, 
Colonel Gold Selleck Silliman, Brigadier-General James 
Wadsworth's State Brigade, June-December, 1776; private 



54 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

Captain John Bell's Company Coast Guard, March-Septem- 
ber, 1777; private Captain Reuben Scofield's Company First 
State Battalion, raised for the defense of the sea coast, Colonel 
Roger Enos, September, 1777-March, 1778; private Captain 
Jesse Bell's Company Coast Guard, eighteen months in serv- 
ice, 1778; private Captain Slawson's Company Coast Guard, 
nine months in service, 1780; private Captain Jesse Bell's 
Company Coast Guard, April-October, 1782; also private, 
" Danburv Alarm," April, 1777, engaged at Ridgefield and 
Compo. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 650, 662 ; his application for the pen- 
sion which he received ; certified copy of statement of 
Wm. Lochren, Commissioner of Pensions, on file.) 

Andrews, William Taylor. 

DIMON, JOHN. 1730-1777- 

Private " Dan bury Alarm," April. 1777; taken prisoner; taken 
to New York and died there. 

("Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," page 493; MS. Records of the Probate 
Court of Fairfield, Volume, 1778-1 781, page 164.) 

Bradley, Cyrus Sherwood. 

DODDERS, PHILIP. 

Captain in Second Regiment, Sussex County, New Jersey, Mili- 
tia. 

(Certificate of Service made by Adjutant-General of 
the State of New Jersey, on file with application.) 

Luke, William E. 

DOUGLASS, WILLIAM, Colonel. 1742-1777- 

Commissioned May I, 1775, Captain Sixth Company First Con- 
necticut Continental Regiment, Major-General David Woos- 
ter; appointed May, 1775, Major Second Regiment Connecti- 
cut Militia, Colonel Jonathan Fitch; resigned October, 1776; 
appointed June 13, 1775, Aide-de-Camp to General Woos- 



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ter; discharged December, 1775; appointed January 11, 1776, 
by Council of Safety, Major Colonel Andrew Ward's Regi- 
ment, Connecticut State Troops; discharged February, 1776; 
appointed May, 1776, Major Colonel Andrew Ward's Con- 
tinental Regiment, but did not serve ; commissioned June 20, 
1776, Colonel Fifth Battalion, Brigadier-General James 
Wadsworth's State Brigade; discharged January 4, 1777; 
commissioned January 1, 1777, Colonel Sixth Regiment 
" Connecticut Line " ; died from effects of previous service, 
May 28, 1777; Deputy to the General Court of Branford, 
May, 1776. 

("Colonial Records of Connecticut," Volume 14, page 
423; Volume 15, pages 42, 225, 270, 300, 422, 428; 
" State Records of Connecticut," Volume 1, pages 28, 13, 
400, 558 ; " Record of Connecticut Men in the War of 
the Revolution," pages 37, 41, 127, 205, 387, 392, 406, 
432.) 

Dowd, Frank Curtis. 

EASTMAN, STEPHEN. 1719-1797. 

Drummer on muster roll of Captain Moses McFarland's Com- 
pany, Colonel John Mixin's Regiment, dated August 1, 1775; 
enlisted April 30, 1775; December 20, 1775. 

(Massachusetts Revolutionary Rolls, Volume XV, 
page 62; Volume LXVI, page 21 ; Volume LXVII, file 
3-) 

Eastman, George Lamard. 

ELLSWORTH, SOLOMON, Lieutenant. 1737-1822. 

Lieutenant Second Company in East Windsor, Captain Lemuel 
Stoughton, Nineteenth Regiment Connecticut Militia, Col- 
onel Erastus Wolcott, 1775; seven days in service Lexington 
Alarm, April, 1775. 

("Colonial Records of Connecticut," Volume 14, 
page 273 ; " Record of Connecticut Men in the War of 
the Revolution," page 10.) 

Cornwall, Nathaniel Ellsworth, Reverend. 



5 6 SONS OF THE RESOLUTION. 
ELWOOD, THOMAS. Lieutenant. 



Private Captain David Dimon's Company, Lexington Alarm ; 
seven days in service, April, 1775; private Fourth Company, 
Captain David Dimon's Fifth Connecticut Continental Regi- 
ment, Colonel David Waterbury, May 10-December 14, 
1775; Lieutenant of Marines on Frigate Alliance, Captain 
Peter Landais, afterwards Captain Harry, August 24, 1778; 
retired from service May 1, 1783. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 11, 67; other references on file with 
New York Society.) 

Fairchild, Thomas Benjamin. 

FAXON, EBENEZER. 1749-1811. 

Private. August 15, 1776, name appears on muster roll of Lieu- 
tenant Charles Seymour's Company, also on Lexington 
Alarm list, April, 1775. 

(Adjutant-General's Report of Connecticut Men in 
the Revolution, page 13. Connecticut Historical Society 
Collections, Volume viii, page 274. History of the Faxon 
family, page 114.) 

Faxon, Walter Coli.yer. 

FILER, ROGER (or Tyler sometimes spelt). 1778. 

Private Captain Fitch Bissell's Company, Seventeenth Connecti- 
cut Continental Regiment, Colonel Jedediah Huntington, 
1776. 

("Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," page 102; Stiles' "Ancient Windsor," Vol- 
ume 2, pages 276, 298 ; " Steven Hart and His Descend- 
ants," pages 190, 224, 747, 869, 1 104.) 

Hart, Charles E. 

FILER, THOMAS. 1739-1777. 

Private. Enlisted November 1, 177b, in Second Company of the 
Fourth Regiment, New York Line; was killed near Pough- 
keepsie, N. Y., October 31, 1777. 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 57 

(Archives of State of New York, " The Revolution," 
Volume I, page 211. Year Book. Empire State Society 
Sons of the American Revolution, 1899, pages 199, 428.) 

Dimon, John Nicoll. 

FLOYD, WILLIAM, Colonel. 1734-1821. 

Member Continental Congress, 1774-1783; Signer Declaration 
of Independence ; member New York Provincial Convention, 
April 20, 1775; Colonel First Regiment, Suffolk County 
(New York) Militia, 1775; member New York Council of 
Safety, 1777; member New York Senate, 1777-1788. 

(" Lanman's Biographical Annals of the Civil Gov- 
ernment of the U. S.," pages 149, 487; "Civil List State 
of New York," Series 1889-91, pages 113, 116, 416; Ar- 
chives of the State of New York, Volume I, page 287.) 

Delafield, Augustus Floyd. 

FOSTER, DAVID. 1756-1818. 

Private Lexington Alarm, April, 1775, Captain Jacob Gould's 
Company, Colonel Samuel Johnson's Regiment, six days ; 
four months' service Captain Richard Peabody's Company, 
Colonel Wigglesworth's Regiment, 1776; Five months from 
November 4, 1777, Captain Cad Ford's Company, Colonel 
Brooks' regiment ; One month and fifteen days in Captain 
John Dix's Company, Colonel Mcintosh's Regiment from 
August 1, 1778. 

(Revolutionary Rolls, Massachusetts Archives. 
United States Pension Records, Department of Interior.) 

Drown, John Wilson. 

FOSTER, JOSEPH. 1 762-1846. 

Joseph Foster was one of twelve sons who, with their father, 
Timothy Foster, enlisted for service from Dudley, Mass. 
Joseph Foster was fourteen years of age at time of enlist- 
ment and served as a fifer. 

Louis W. Button. 



58 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

FOWLER, MOSES. 

Private Captain Jacob Purdy's Company. Second Regiment of 
Westchester Militia, Colonel Thomas Thomas, June 9, 1779. 

(Treasurer's Certificates, Volume 3, State of New 
York, page 2.) 

Knapp, Edwin Augustus. 

FRANCIS, JOHN. 1 744-1824. 

Sergeant Captain Hezekiah Wells' Company of Wethersfield, 
Colonel Erastus Wolcott's Regiment, January to March, 
1776; Private Captain Chester Wells' Company, Colonel 
Belden's Regiment, April 10 to May 22, 1777; Ensign Cap- 
tain Nathaniel Bunnell's Company, Colonel Roger Enos' 
Regiment, June, 1777; Second Lieutenant Captain Elijah 
Wright's Company, Colonel Enos' Regiment, June 29, 1778; 
Lieutenant Captain Samuel Granger's Company, Colonel 
Levi Wells' Regiment, 1780; Captain of First Company of 
Wethersfield in Provisional Regiment, 1781. 

(Adjutant-General's Report of Connecticut Men in 
the Revolution, pages 383, 497, 539, 586, 614, 615. Rec- 
ords of State of Connecticut, Volume 1, pages 255, 256, 
466; Volume 2, pages 29, 91, 284, 459, 533. Boardman 
Genealogy, page 586, 614, 615. History Hartford Coun- 
ty, pages 475, 476.) 

Boardman, William Francis Joseph. 

FULLER, JOHN, Captain. 1731-1801. 

Captain Colonel Asa Whitcomb's Massachusetts Regiment, 
1775-1782. 

(MS. Revolutionary War Archives of Massachu- 
setts, Volume 14, page 85; Volume 28, page 62; Volume 
51, page 89; MS. Archives of Massachusetts, Volume 
146, page 83; Volume 147, page 156; Volume 148, page 
115.) 

H eaton, John Edward. 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 59 

GARRETT, JOHN WAIT, Major. 1778. 

Appointed Lieutenant First Company, Twenty-fourth (West- 
moreland) Regiment Connecticut Militia, Colonel Zebulon 
«Butler, October, 1775; promoted Captain October, 1776 ; 
promoted Major October, 1777; killed in action at Wyom- 
ing July 3, 1778. 

("Colonial Records of Connecticut," Volume 15, 
page. 152; "State Records of Connecticut," Volume 1, 
pages 31, 430; " Record of Connecticut Men in the War 
of the Revolution," page 440.) 

Gates, Howard Eugene, M.D. 

GILLETT, JOSEPH. 1756-184—. 

Private, Corporal, Lieutenant, Captain of the Sixth Company, 
in the Third Regiment of Connecticut Militia of Lyme, 
Conn. 

(His commission and roll book is in possession of ap- 
plicant. Adjutant-General's Report of Connecticut Men 
in the Revolution, pages 655, 661.) 

Nichols, William Ebenezer. 

GLEN NY, WILLIAM, Lieutenant. 1760- 1800. 

Sergeant Fourth Regiment " Connecticut Line," formation of 
1777-1781, Colonel John Durkee, January 1, 1777; pro- 
moted Ensign Captain John Durkee's Company, First Regi- 
ment "Connecticut Line," formation of 1781-1783, Colonel 
John Durkee; Ensign First Regiment "Connecticut Line," 
formation of January-June, 1783, Colonel Zebulon Butler; 
promoted Lieutenant, Colonel Heman Swift's Regiment 
"Connecticut Line," final formation, June-December, 1783; 
member Society of the Cincinnati, 1783. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 183, 320, 359, 368, 373-) 

French, Louis, Reverend. 

French, Louis Mardenbrough. 

French, William Freeman, M.D. 



60 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

GOODSPEED, NATHAN. 1735-1818. 

Corporal, April 1, 1779, to November 1, 1779, Connecticut State 
Militia; December 4, 1780, appointed on "Committee of 
Supply for Soldiers' Families for Year Ensuing," *at East 
Haddam, Conn. 

(Connecticut Historical Society Collections, Volume 
VIII, page 21 1. History of Middlesex County [Beers], 
page 288.) 

Goodspeed, William Robbins. 

GOODRICH, ELIZUR. 1 730-1785. 

Private Ninth Company of Wethersfield Second Regiment, Cap- 
tain John Chester, Colonel Joseph Spencer, at Battle of 
Bunker Hill; enlisted May 15, 1775; discharged December 
'7. 1775 ; Third Company, Captain Selah Heart's Company, 
Colonel Wolcott's Regiment, from January to March, 1776; 
Sergeant of Lieutenant David Smith's Company, Sixth Regi- 
ment, Colonel Thomas Belden ; enlisted April 13, discharged 
May 19, 1777; served on committee appointed by the Town 
of Wethersfield to purchase articles requested by the Gover- 
nor and Council for the use of the Continental Army raised in 
this State and forward same to Elisha Hubbard, Commissary ; 
also to borrow money to pay bounties offered by the Town, 
etc. 

(Adjutant-General's Report of Connecticut Men in 
the War of the Revolution, pages 51, 383, 496. Hin- 
man's " Connecticut in the War of the Revolution," page 
292. Goodrich Genealogy, page 76. Wethersfield 
Town Records. Boardman Genealogy, pages 400, 694, 
695.) 

Boardman, William Francis Joseph. 

GOODYEAR, THEOPHILUS, Corporal. 1731-1793. 

Private Third Company, Captain Samuel Peck, Fifth Battalion, 
Colonel William Douglass, Brigadier-General James Wads- 
worth's State Brigade, 1 77b ; Corporal Captain Joseph Mans- 
field's Company, Sixth Regiment " Connecticut Line," forma- 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 6 1 

tion of 1 777- 1 78 1, Colonel William Douglass, April 1, 1777- 
December 31, 1779; invalid pensioner. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 207, 408, 649.) 

H eaton, John Edward. 

GOULD, EBENEZER. 1760-1809. 

Private Captain Job Knap's Company Massachusetts Militia, in 
service at Rhode Island February 28-March 13, 1781. 

(MS. Revolutionary War Archives of Massachu- 
setts, Volume 2, page 175; certificate of Wm. M. Olin, 
Secretary of State of Massachusetts, on file.) 

Gould, David Henry. 

GOULD, ELEAZER, Sergeant. 1720 . 

Sergeant Captain Caleb Whiting's Company Massachusetts Mili- 
tia; ten days in service Lexington Alarm, April, 1775. 

(MS. Revolutionary War Archives of Massachu- 
setts, Volume 13, page 167; certificate of Wm. M. Olin, 
Secretary of State of Massachusetts, on file.) 

Gould, David Henry. 

GREEN, JAMES. 1728-1809. 

Captain. Was Senior Captain of the Second Regiment of Light 
Horse of Connecticut, and was present with them at New 
York in September, 1776, also at Saratoga and the capture 
of Burgoyne in 1777, and later did duty in Rhode Island 
and often in the State. Nathan Hale, while teaching at East 
Haddam, Conn., 1773-4, lived at the house of Captain James 
Green, and Richard Green, the son, was a scholar of Nathan 
Hale in the old schoolhouse. 

(Munson Genealogy II, 762. Winslow Genealogy I, 
104. Lineage Book, D. A. R., IV, 25.) 

Greene, Marshall Winslow. 

Warner, Charles Belden. 

Boardman, Eugene. 



62 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

HALLETT, JOSEPH. 1731-1799. 

Member of New York Committee of One Hundred, May I, 
1775; member of New York Provincial Congress, 1775-6. 

("Civil List, State of New York," Series 1889-91, 
pages 1 14, 452-3 ; " Archives of the State of New York," 
Volume 1, page 3.) 

Delafield, Augustus Floyd. 

HAMILTON, ALEXANDER, Brevet-Colonel. 1757-1804. 

Appointed Captain New York Provincial Artillery, March 14, 
1776; Aide-de-Camp to the Commander-in-Chief, with rank 
of Lieutenant-Colonel by Brevet, September 28, 1783, to 
end of war ; member Society of the Cincinnati. 

("Archives of the State of New York," Volume 1, 
pages 84, 244, etc.; Heitman's "Register of Officers in 
the Continental Army," page 206.) 

HICKOK, JOHN. 1734-1810. 

Private Captain Daniel Benedict's Company, Ninth Regiment 
Connecticut Militia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Mead, Au- 
gust 12-September 8, 1776; enlisted in same company under 
command of Lieutenant John Carter January 12, 1777; dis- 
charged January 25, 1777. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 459, 485.) 

Warren, Henry Joseph. 

Warren, Frank Kaile. 

HILL, EBENEZER. 

Private. Pensioner of the War of the Revolution. 
(Affidavits on file with application.) 
Crandall, Harvey LeMond. 

HODGE, PHILO. 1 756-1842. 

Private Captain Peter Perritt's Company, Nineteenth Conti- 
nental Regiment, Colonel Charles Webb, January, 1776- Janu- 
ary, 1777; private Captain Benjamin Hine's Company, Second 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 63 

Battalion Connecticut State Troops, Colonel Thaddeus Cook, 
January- April, 1777; also in service a few days in "Dan- 
bury Alarm," in Second Company, Captain Samuel Treat, 
Second Regiment Connecticut Militia, April, 1777. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 635, 663; his application for the pen- 
sion which he received ; statement of Wm. Lochren, Com- 
missioner of Pensions, on file.) 

Hodge, Charles W. 

HOLBROOK, JOHN. 1 726-1 801. 

Member Derby Committee of Inspection, elected December II, 
1775 I member of committee to take care of soldiers' clothing, 
elected December 14, 1778. 

(" Derby Town Proceedings," Volume 1, pages 106, 
107, 126, 127; certificate on file.) 

Johnson, Frederick Curtis, Colonel. 

HOLCOMBE, ELIJAH. 1731 . 

Private Third Company, Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Enos, Sec- 
ond Connecticut Continental Regiment, Brigadier-General 
Joseph Spencer, May 7-December 19, 1775; private Captain 
James Judson's Company, Major John Skinner's Regiment 
Connecticut Militia, Light Horse, July 8-August 3, 1776; 
private Second Regiment Continental Light Dragoons. Col- 
onel Elisha Sheldon, January 1, 1 781-1 783. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 47, 283, 476.) 

Wessels, Henry Walton, Colonel. 

HOLMES, JABEZ, Sergeant. 1751-1817. 

Sergeant Captain William Stanton's Company, Eighth Regiment 
Connecticut Militia, Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver Smith, Sep- 
tember 8-November 17, 1776. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," page 453 ; Records Pension Office, War 



64 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

Department ; certificate of Colonel F. C. Ainsworth, U. 
S. Army, Chief of Office, on file.) 

Holmes, George James, M.D. 

Potter, Albert Jay. 

HOTCHKISS, GIDEON. 1716-1807. 

Member of the Committee of Inspection of the Town of Water- 
bury, 1776, 1777; acted as Commissary, procuring and con- 
ducting provisions and clothing to the American forces on the 
Hudson River, 1777; Captain of a company raised in and sent 
from Waterbury, to take part in the War of the Revolu- 
tion. 

("Anderson's History of Waterbury," Volume I, 
pages 411, 460, 463.) 

Sanford, Frederick R., Reverend. 

HOTCHKISS, JOHN. 1779. 

Volunteer, killed at New Haven July 5, 1779. 

(The Connecticut Journal, New Haven, Wednes- 
day, July 28, 1779, in the Library of Yale University, 
New Haven.) 

Wells, Edward Livingston. 

HULL, JEDEDIAH. 1732-1790. 

First Lieutenant Captain Diamond's Company of Fairfield, May 
'7, 1 775- 

(Adjutant-General's Report of Connecticut Men in 
the Revolution.) 

Pearce, Reuben Booth. 

HUNT, RUSSELL. 1732-18—. 

Second Lieutenant Second Battalion, Thaddeus Cook, Colonel, 
John Watson, Captain. 

(Adjutant-General's Report of Connecticut Men in 
the Revolution, page 424.) 

Hunt, Charles Kellogg. 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 65 

HUNTINGTON, JEDEDIAH, Brigadier-General. 1 743-1818. 

Colonel Norwich Connecticut Militia, Lexington Alarm, April, 
1775; Colonel Eighth Connecticut Continental Regiment, 
July 6-September 10, 1775; Colonel Seventeenth Connecticut 
Continental Regiment, 1776; Colonel First Regiment "Con- 
necticut Line," formation of 1777-1781; Colonel Twentieth 
Regiment Connecticut Militia; Brigadier-General Conti- 
nental Army, May 12, 1777, to close of War. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 19, 36, 85, 96, 101, 141, 145, 312, 
439; " Heitman's Register of Officers of the Continental 

Army.") 

Huntington, Frederick Jabez. 

HYDE, JOSEPH. 1761 . 

Private Fairfield Coast Guard nine months ; private " Danbury 
Alarm "; engaged at Ridgefield; wounded at Compo; also in 
service at the burning of Fairfield, and at Norwallc. 

(Autograph statement and affidavit of Joseph Wake- 
man, dated October 19, 1838, both in possession of Simon 
Couch Sherwood. ) 

Sherwood, Simon Couch. 

JENNINGS, JOEL. 1753 . 



Private Fourth Company, Captain David Dimon, Fifth Con- 
necticut Continental Regiment, Colonel David Waterbury, 
May 13-November n, 1775. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," page 67.) 

Sturges, Abram Baldwin, M.D. 

JENNISON, JOHN, Captain. 1744-1804. 

First Lieutenant Captain Christopher Webber's Company, Col- 
onel Benjamin Bellow's New Hampshire Regiment, March 
16, 1776; promoted Captain; in service till 1780. 

(New Hampshire MS. State Papers, Volume 10, 
pages 591, 593, 594, 595, 596, 599, 602, 603; Volume 
5 



66 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

14, page 297 ; Volume 1 s. pages 23, 37 ; Volume 17, pages 
528, 532.) 

H eaton, Jonx F.dward. 

JESUP, EBENEZER. M.D., Ensign. [739-1812. 

Ensign Captain Thomas Nash's Company, in service of the Fourth 
Regiment Connecticut Militia, Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan 
Dimon, at Peekskill, October 5-30, 1777. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," page 518.) 

Sherwood, Simon Couch. 

JOHNSON, ISAAC. 1758-1805. 

Private. Enlisted May 8, 1777, in Captain Humphrey's Corn- 
pans, Sixth Regiment, " Connecticut Line." Transferred 
August 1, 1 78 1, to First Regiment. 

Bradley, Seymour Percy. 

JONES, JOHN, Lieutenant. 1739-1817. 

Second Lieutenant Captain Noble Benedict's Company, Colonel 
Philip Burr Bradley's Battalion, Brigadier-General James 
Wadsworth's State Brigade, 1776. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," page 414.) 

Jones, John Smith. 
Jones, Timothy. 
Miller, James Edmond. 

KEENEY, ALEXANDER, Jr. . 



Private Captain Timothy Cheney's Company of Hartford in the 
Lexington Alarm, April, 1775. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," page 13.) 

Fitz-Gerald, Ransom Ney. 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. Qj 

KNAPP, HEZEKIAH. 1 749-1840. 

Private Captain Timothy Lockwood's Company, Colonel John 
Mead's Regiment; enlisted in July, 1778; served eighteen 
months; served as guard at Greenwich, Conn. 

(Statement of Department of the Interior, Bureau of 
Pensions, on file with application.) 

Judd, William Hawley. 

KNAPP, JOSHUA. 

Private Captain Joseph Hubby's Company, Ninth Regiment Con- 
necticut Militia, Colonel John Meade. 

(Statement of Record and Pension Office, War De- 
partment, Washington, D. C, on file with application.) 

Knapp, Augustus. 

LAWRENCE, JONATHAN, Brigade-Major. 1802. 

Member New York Provincial Congress, 1775-1777; Brigade- 
Major Queens County, (New York) Militia, 1775; Lieuten- 
ant Captain Nathaniel Tomm's Company, Colonel William 
Malcolm's Regiment Additional Continental Infantry, Janu- 
ary 10, 1777-April 22, 1779; Captain Lieutenant-Colonel H. 
K. Van Rensselaer's Regiment New York Levies, 1779; Cap- 
tain Colonel John Harper's Regiment New York Levies, May 
n-November 30, 1780; Captain Sappers and Miners, June 
12, 1781-November 25, 1782. 

(" Civil List, State of New York," Series 1889-91, 
pages 453-4; "Archives of the State of New York," Vol- 
ume 1, pages 4, 240, 256, 257, 286, 413.) 

Hamilton, Alexander, Reverend. 

Wayne, Henry N., Reverend. 

Wayne, Henry Townsend. 

LAWTON, ROBERT. . 



Private Providence Company of Cadets under Colonel Nightin- 
gale, serving at Pawtuxet, 1777; Deputy from the Town of 
Portsmouth to the General Assembly of the State of Rhode 
Island and Providence Plantations in 178 1, 1782, 1783. 



68 SONS OF THE RE] 0L\ TIO \ 

(Certified copy of statement of Charles P. Bennett, 
Secretary of the State of Rhode Island, on file.) 

Lawton, Herbert. 

LINCOLN, STEPHEN. 1 751-1840. 

Private August, i77S-February, 1779, in the Rhode Island cam- 
paign, in which General John Sullivan attempted, unsuccess- 
fully, the siege of Newport. 

(Records of Oakham, Mass.; certificate of Jesse Al- 
len, Town Clerk, on file.) 

Lincoln, George Francis. 
Lincoln, Frederick Miles. 

LYMAN, ELIHU, Ensign. 1760 . 

Ensign Captain Elihu Hubbard's Company Seventeenth Conti- 
nental Regiment, Colonel Jedediah Huntington, 1776; 
wounded and taken prisoner in action at Long Island Au- 
gust 27, 177O; exchanged May, 1778; member Society of the 
Cincinnati. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 101, 376; State Records of Connecti- 
cut, Volume 1, page 258; Volume 2, page 51.) 

Sanford, George Bliss, Lieutenant-Colonel Uni- 
ted States Army. 

LYON, JOSIAH. 1829. 

Private May 10, 1775, to December 17, 1775, Captain James 
Chapman's Company, Colonel Samuel H olden Parsons, Sixth 
Regiment of Continental troops; Private September 8, 177b, 
to November 2, 1776, Captain Keyes' Company, Major Back- 
us' Regiment of Light Horse; Private August 24, 1777, to 
October 30, 1777, Captain Amos Jones' Company, Colonel 
Jonathan Latimer's Regiment. 

(Adjutant-General's Report of Connecticut Men in 
the Revolution, pages 75, 478, 506.) 

Park 1 r. Ik wcis H. 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. <5g 

LYON, NEMIAH WEBB. 1 759-1860. 

Private Captain Najah Bennett's Company, General David 
Waterbury's State Brigade, for the defense of the post at 
Horseneck, and places adjacent; in service at Green's Farms 
March, 1 78 1 ; pensioner, under the Act of 1840. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 576, 662.) 

Lyon, George Frederick. 

LYON, ROGER. 1715-1797. 

Private, Colonel Thomas Thomas' Regiment, Westchester 
County, New York, 1779. 

(Statement of Record and Pension Office, War De- 
partment, Washington, D. £., on file with application.) 

Knapp, Edwin A. 

LYON, SAMUEL. 

Private Captain Caleb Lawrence's Company, Second Regiment, 
Westchester County, New York, September, 1779, Colonel 
Thomas Thomas commanding ; Private Captain Richard Sack- 
ett's Company, January, 1781. 

(MS. Volume Treasurer's Certificates of New York 
State, Volume 9, page 29; Volume 3, page 7.) 

Knapp, Edwin Augustus. 

MATHER, JOSEPH, Captain. 1 753-1840. 

Private First Company, Captain-Lieutenant Sylvanus Brown, 
Fifth Connecticut Continental Regiment, Colonel David 
Waterbury, May 9-December 10, 1775; Private Eleventh 
Company, Captain Jonathan Bell, Ninth Regiment Connecti- 
cut Militia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Mead commanding; in 
service at New York August 13-September 16, 1776; Private 
same company, in service on the Westchester border October 
24-December 24, 1776; Private same company, Captain Eli 
Reed, in service on the Westchester border December 28, 
1 7 76- January 8, 1777; served in same company three months; 
Sergeant same company, " Captain " Nathaniel Slason, eight 



7o 



SONS OP THE REVOLUTION. 

months in service, 1779; promoted Ensign; in service July, 
1780; promoted Captain; six months in service, 1781. 

("Record of Connecticut .Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 64, 456, 488, 586, 619, 650; his appli- 
cation for the pension which he received ; copy of state- 
ment of Wm. Lochren, Commissioner of Pensions, on 
file.) 

Street, Frederick D. 

MATHER, MOSES, D.D., Rev. 1719-1806. 

Taken prisoner with the congregation of the church at .Middle- 
sex July 22, 1781, and confined in the Provost prison, New 
York. 

("Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution," Benson 
J. Lossing, Volume 1, page 414; " Poetical Relation," 
Peter St. John.) 

Street, Frederick D. 

MELLEN, JAMES, Lieutenant-Colonel. . 

Captain Colonel Jonathan Ward's Regiment Massachusetts 
Troops, 1775; served three months, fourteen days; Lieutenant- 
Colonel Ninth Regiment Massachusetts Militia, 1777; Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Colonel Wasson's Regiment January I -De- 
cember 31, 1780; Lieutenant-Colonel Fourth Regiment Mas- 
sachusetts Troops, June, 1 781 -December 20, 1782. 

(MS. Records State of Massachusetts; certificate of 
Wm. M. Olin, Secretary of State, on file.) 

Leeds, Ch \ri.es II. 

MILES, BENJAMIN. 1724-177O. 

Private Captain Adam Wheeler's Company, Colonel Ephraim 
Doolittle's Regiment ; was in camp at Charlestown and Win- 
ter Hill in 1775. 

(Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolu- 
tionary War, Volume X, page 731. Year Book, 1897-9. 
Connecticut Society, Sons of American Revolution, page 
73I-) 

Lincoln, Frederick Miles. 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 71 

MILLER, JONATHAN. 

Private Captain John Barnard's Company, Colonel Samuel 
Wyllys' Regiment; enlisted January 10, 1778, for the term of 
one year. 

(Adjutant-General's Report of Connecticut Men in 
the Revolution, page 176.) 

Clark, Robert Moses. 

MORGAN, WILLIAM AVERY, Sergeant. 1 754-1842. 

Private Captain Isaac Gallup's Company Tenth Continental 
Regiment, Colonel Samuel Holden Parsons, December I, 
1775-December, 1776; was in the battle of Long Island, and 
during the engagement a musket ball passed through his hat; 
promoted Sergeant about the time New London was burned, 
he was drafted and went to that place and served about one 
month, but under what officers is not stated ; was one of the 
first to enter Fort Griswold after the massacre. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 100, 656, 661 ; his application for the 
pension which he received ; statement of Wm. Lochren, 
Commissioner of Pensions, on file.) 

Bulkeley, Morgan Gardner, Hon. 

Bulkeley, William Henry. 

Bulkeley, William Eliphalet Adams. 

MORGAN, ZEDEKIAH. 1744 . 

Conductor of teams for transporting supplies from Danbury, 
Conn., to the Connecticut Army, 1 779-1 781. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," page 628.) 

Morgan, Daniel Nash, Hon. 
MORRIS, JAMES, Brevet-Major. . 



Commissioned June 20, 1776, Ensign Fifth Company, Captain 
Abraham Bradley, Second Battalion, Colonel Fisher Gay, 
Brigadier-General James Wadsworth's State Brigade; com- 
missioned, January 1, 1777, First Lieutenant Fifth Regiment 
"Connecticut Line," formation of 1777-1781, Colonel Philip 



72 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

Burr Bradley; taken prisoner in the Battle of Germantown 
October 4, 1777; exchanged January 3. 1781 ; promoted Cap- 
tain-Lieutenant July 29, 1780; promoted Captain August 22, 
1780; Captain Second Regiment "Connecticut Line," forma- 
tion of 1781-178.}, Colonel Heman Swift; detached from 
Second Regiment to serve in Colonel Alexander Scammell's 
Light Infantry Regiment May, 1781; served with Southern 
Army; retired by consolidations January 1, 1783; member 
Society of the Cincinnati. 

("Colonial Records of Connecticut," Volume is. 
page 426; " Record of Connecticut Men in the War of 
the Revolution," pages 194, 325, 3=54, 375, 395.) 

Morris, Dwight, Brigadier-General. 

Morris, Robert Clark. 

NORTON, OLIVER, Dr. 1763-1838. 

Private, August, 1778, two months service; 1779, two months' 
service; April, 1780, nine months' service; 1781, two months' 
service. 

(Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C, his pen- 
sion, granted August 20, 1832.) 

Noxon, George H. 

OSBORN, NATHANIEL, Sergeant. . 

Private Second Company, Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Whiting, 
Fifth Connecticut Continental Regiment, Colonel David 
Waterbury, May 10-November 17, 1775: re-entered service; 
Private Captain Robert Walker's Company, Colonel Samuel 
Elmore's Continental Regiment, April 16, 1776; Sergeant 
Captain John Yeates' Company, Colonel Roger Enos' Regi- 
ment Connecticut Militia, in service on the Hudson May 29- 
August 27, 1778; Sergeant Corps of Sappers and Miners, Sep- 
tember 9, 1779-1783. 

("Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 65, 115, 298, 538: statement of Edgar 
B. Hoyt, on file.) 

Hoyt, HUESTED W. R., Colonel. 

Hoyt, Leigh Richmond. 



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PARKER, JOHN. 1732-1806. 



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Private Captain Eliphalet Holmes' Company of Minute Men 
raised in East Haddam, May, 1 776 ; Private June, 1776, to 
December 25, 1776, Captain Eliphalet Holmes' Company, 
Fourth Battalion, Colonel Wadsworth's Brigade; was in 
battle at White Plains; Private August 3, 1778, to September, 
1778, in Captain Seth W. Holmes' Company, under Brig- 
adier-General John Tyler ; Private November 8, 1 780, to 
January 6, 1 78 1 , Captain Z. Hungerford's Company, Colonel 
Samuel McLellan's Regiment, at New London and Groton. 

(Adjutant-General's Report of Connecticut Men in 
the Revolution, pages 404, 532, 580, 611.) 

Parker, Francis H. 

PARKER, JOHN. 1758-1839. 

Private Captain Martin Kirtland's Company, Colonel Erastus 
Wolcott's Regiment, New London, Conn., February 28, 
'777>' Private Captain Martin Kirtland's Company, Colonel 
R. J. Meigs' Regiment, May 20, 1777, to May 20, 1780. 

(Adjutant-General's Report of Connecticut Men in 
the Revolution, pages 613, 636; and Certificate of Com- 
missioner of Pensions.) 

Parker, John Marvin, Jr. 
PEASE, SHARON. 1746 . 



Private Captain Loomis' Company, Major Backus' Regiment of 
Light Horse, 1776, ordered to army near New York; also 
in detachment of Third Troop in Fourth Regiment of Light 
Horse, and served as an escort to Convention Troops (pris- 
oners of Burgoyne's army) passing through Connecticut No- 
vember, 1778. 

(Adjutant-General's Report of Connecticut Men in 
the Revolution, pages 479, 546 ; Allen's History of En- 
field, page 2495.) 

Lincoln, Frederick Miles. 



74 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

PHELPS, BERIAH. . 

Private Captain John Skinner's Company, Colonel Jonathan Lati- 
mer's Regiment, August 25-November 2, 1777; Corporal Cap- 
tain Daniel Dewey's Company, Colonel Obadiah Johnson's 
Regiment, 1778. 

(His application for pension which he received; state- 
ment of D. T. Murphy, Commissioner of Pensions, on 
file.) 

Skiff, Charles William. 

POND, CHARLES, Captain. 1 744-1832. 

Ensign Captain Perrit's Company, Colonel Webb's Regiment, at 
siege of Boston; Lieutenant, 1776; June, 1776, in command of 
armed sloop Schuyler; re-captured prizes taken by the Eng- 
lish; Captain Sixth Regiment "Connecticut Line," formation 
of 1 777-1 781, Colonel William Douglass, January 1, 1777; 
resigned April 20, 1779; Captain brig-of-war New Defense, 
1770,; taken prisoner and confined on prison ship Jersey. 

(" Colonial Records of Connecticut," Volume 15, page 
94; "Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 8.?, 104, 206, 376; "American Ar- 
chives," fourth series, Volume (>, pages 974, 991 ; " Thir- 
ty-six Voyages," George Coggeshall, New York, 1858, 
pages 26, 27, list of prisoners on ship Jersey.) 

Baldwin, Wilson Leslie. 

Pond, Nathan Gillette. 

PROVOST, SAMUEL. 1740-1835- 

Private Captain Bell's Company, Ninth Regiment Connecticut 
Militia, under General Wooster, 1776-1777; pensioner under 
the Act of 1832. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 490, 651.) 

Provost, Howard G, D.D.S. 



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PUTNAM, DANIEL. 1 759-1831. 

Aide-de-Camp with rank of Major to his father, Major-General 
Putnam, 1 776-1 780; First Lieutenant Colonel Durkee's Regi- 
ment, Twentieth Continentals, 1776. 

(Adjutant-General's Report of Connecticut Men in 
the Revolution, pages 97, 106, 142, 376, 636.) 

Bigelow, Henry Waite. 

PUTNAM, ISRAEL, Major-General. 1718-1790. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Lexington Alarm, April, 1775; appointed by 
the Legislature at the special April session, 1775, Second Brig- 
adier-General of the Regiments then ordered for the safety 
and defense of the Colony ; also, at same time, appointed Col- 
onel of the Third Regiment, commission dated May I, 1775; 
Major-General Continental Army, 1776; Major-General 
Continental Army, 1777-1781 ; incapacitated December, 1779; 
borne on the rolls with full pay to close of the war, June, 1783 ; 
retired under Acts of Congress as half-pay officer for life. 

( " Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 20, 36, 37, 53, 58, 95. 97. 129, 131, 
141, 312, 436; " Life of Israel Putnam," by J. N. Tar- 
box; "Life of Israel Putnam," by Mack, Andrus and 
Woodruff, Ithaca, 1839.) 

Brown. George Israel, Reverend. 

Brinley, Edward Brinley. 

Brinley, Daniel Putnam. 

Bigelow, Henry Waite. 

REDFIELD, CONSTANT. 1753-1839- 

Private Captain Bezaleel Bristol's Company, Second Regiment, 
" Connecticut Line." 

Bradley, Seymour Percy. 

ROGERS, ICHABOD. 1754-1821. 

Private, enlisted June 18, 1776, Captain Smith's Company, Col- 
onel Bradley's Battalion; discharged December 28, 1776. 




76 SONS OF THE REIOLUTION. 

(Adjutant-General's Report of Connecticut Men in 
the Revolution, pages 420, 621.) 

Rogers, Nathaxiel Burton. 

Rogers, Cephas Brainard, 2D. 

ROWELL, SAMUEL. 1754- 1830. 

Private, enlisted 1774 from Londonderry, New Hampshire, Cap- 
tain Henry Drummond, Colonel John Stark's Regiment; 
engaged in Battle of Bunker Hill; August, 1775, with Eighth 
Company, Colonel John Stark's Regiment, under Colonel 
Benedict Arnold, went to Quebec; enlisted November 29, 
1 775, Captain Titcomb's Company, Colonel Poor's Regi- 
ment; July II, 1776, Captain John Nesmuth's Company, Col- 
onel Wingate's Regiment, at Brooklyn Heights: July 20th, 
Captain Daniel Reynolds' Company, Colonel Moses Nichols' 
Regiment, Stark's Brigade, at Battle of Bennington; dis- 
charged September 28, 1777; enlisted April 28, 1778. Colonel 
Moses Keiley's Regiment, Sullivan's Brigade, at Fishkill-on- 
the-Hudson; enlisted April, 1780, Captain Nathaniel Hutch- 
ins' Company, Colonel Joseph Cilley's First New Hampshire 
Regiment, and marched to West Point; discharged March, 
1781. 

(New Hampshire Records; Records Pension Bureau, 
Washington, D. C.) 

Rowell, George Presburv. 

Rowell, Charles Emery. 

Rowell, Edward Everett. 

Rowell, Edward Everett, Jr. 

SANFORD, ELIHU, Sergeant. 1 759- 1 839- 

Corporal Captain David Smith's Company, Eighth Regiment 
"Connecticut Line," formation of 1 777-1 781, Colonel John 
Chandler, February 16, 1777; promoted Sergeant May 27, 
1778; Sergeant Captain David Dorrance's Company, Fifth 
Regiment "Connecticut Line," formation of 1 781-1783, 
Lieutenant-Colonel Isaac Sherman, January 1 -December 31, 
1781. 



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(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 231, 348, 637.) 

Sanford, George Bliss, Lieutenant-Colonel Uni- 
ted States Army. 

SANFORD, JAMES. . 

Private Captain Ebenezer Hill's Company, Seventh Regiment 
" Connecticut Line," Colonel Heman Swift, formation of 
1777-1781; Private Captain Stephen Billings' Company, 
Second Regiment " Connecticut Line," Colonel Heman Swift, 
formation of 1781-1783. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 225, 326, 644, 662; " Burr's History 
of Redding," page 221; his application for the pension 
which he received ; certificate of Wm. Lochren, Commis- 
sioner of Pensions, on file. ) 

Sanford, Frederick Harriman. 

SCHUYLER, PHILIP, Major-General. 1733-1804. 

Major-General Continental Army, June 19, 1775; resigned April 
!9> J 779; member Continental Congress, 1775-1781; member 
New York Provincial Convention, April 20, 1775; member 
New York Senate, 1 780-1784; member Society of the Cin- 
cinnati. 

(" Heitman's Register of Officers in' the Continental 
Army," page 358 ; 'Archives of the State of New York," 
Volume 1, pages 8, 15, etc.) 

Hamilton, Alexander, Major-General. 

Hamilton, Alexander, Reverend. 

SEXTON, GEORGE. 1756-1815. 

Was appointed or enlisted and served as Ensign, March 25, 1777, 
to September 21, 1778, Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment of 
Vermont; Lieutenant September 28, 1778, to August 1, 1780, 
Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment of Vermont ; Captain Au- 
gust 20, 1 78 1, to November 25, 1781, Colonel Ebenezer 



78 SONS OF THE REVOLl //"A 

Walbridge's Regiment of Vermont; Captain April i, 1782, 
to October 22, 1782, Major Gideon Bronson's Regiment of 
Vermont, and engaged in the Battles of Bennington and Sara- 
toga. 

(Affidavits of Commissioner of Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C. ; Chief of Bureau of Rolls and Li- 
brary, Department of State, Washington, D. C. ; Chief 
of Record and Pension Office of Washington, D. C. : Ad- 
jutant-General of the State of Vermont.) 

Whittelsey, Charles Barney. 

SEWARD, WILLIAM, Reverend. 1747-1822. 

Chaplain in Colonel David Waterbury's Regiment in 1775 at 
Stillwater, N. Y. ( His name is found in a list of Sick Bills 
of 1775, being itemized accounts of the expenses of individual 
soldiers.) 

(Connecticut Historical Society Collections, Volume 
VIII, page 19; " Biographical Sketches of Yale Gradu- 
ates," by Dexter, Volume III.) 

Seward, William, Jr. 

SHERMAN, ROGER. 1 721 -1793. 

Assistant, May, 1774-May, 1780; member Continental Con- 
gress, 1 774- 1 780; member of Committee appointed to prepare 
the Declaration of Independence and signer of the same; 
member Connecticut Council of Safety, May, 1774-May, 
1780; delegate to the Springfield Convention, July, 1 777 ; 
delegate to the New Haven Convention, January, 1778; dele- 
gate to the Philadelphia Convention, January, 1780. 

("American Archives," Volume I, pages 554, 895; 
" Journals of Congress," Volume 2, pages 206, 207, 245 ; 
" Colonial Records of Connecticut," Volume 14, pages 
254, 324; Volume 15, pages 4, 136, 272; " State Records 
of Connecticut," Volume 1, pages 10, 221, 253, 355, 
4'7. 477. 6°o. 601, 609, 610, 612; Volume 2, pages 3, 
18, 134. 251, 287, 462, 579.) 

Baldwin, Henry. 



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SHERWOOD, DANIEL, 2 d. 1735-1819. 

Private Eighth Company, Captain Jonathan Dimon, Fourth 
Regiment Connecticut Militia, Colonel Gold Selleck Silli- 
man, May, 1776; in service in Fairfield Coast Guard Novem- 
ber 7, 1776; Clerk Fairfield Coast Guard, Captain George 
Burr, in service at Fairfield August 7, 1777, and at Peekskill 
under Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Dimon, October 5-14, 
1777. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 521, 616; MS. Records Fairfield 
Coast Guard in Pequot Library, Southport; MS. muster 
roll and order in possession of Cyrus Sherwood Bradley, 
Southport.) 

Bradley, Cyrus Sherwood. 

Rowland, Henry Lincoln. 

Rowland, Herbert Samuel. 

Sherwood, Simon Couch. 

SMITH, ELIPHALET. 1 761-1836. 

Private Captain Beardsley's Company Fairfield Coast Guard, 
September-December, 1779; Private Sixth Company, Captain 
Ebenezer Morehouse, Fourth Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
Major Elijah Abel, in service September, 1780-January, 1781 ; 
Private Captain Daniel Sturges' Company Fairfield Coast 
Guard April-August, 1782. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," page 65 1 ; his application for the pension 
which he received ; statement of Wm. Lochren, Com- 
missioner of Pensions, on file.) 

Hoyt, Harrie Trowbridge. 

Hoyt, Thomas Russell. 

SMITH, PHINEAS, Captain. 1717-1789. 

Captain Colonel Porter's Regiment Massachusetts Troops Lex- 
ington Alarm, April, 1775; Captain Fourth Hampshire Coun- 
ty Regiment Massachusetts Militia, 1776; Captain Colonel 



80 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

Ruggles Woodbridge's Regiment Bennington Alarm, August 
17-21, 1777. 

(Records State of Massachusetts, Volume 13, page 
101 ; Volume 42, page 83 ; Volume 23, page 75 ; Volume 
176, page 460 1-2 ; statement of Wm. M. Olin, Secretary 
of the State of Massachusetts, on file.) 

Hadsell, G. Arthur. 
STORRS, DAN. 1748 . 



Clerk under Lieutenant-Colonel Experience Storrs, Lexington 
Alarm, April, 1775 ; twenty-seven days in service. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 

Revolution," page 16.) 

Waterman, Warren Gookin. 

STOWE, SAMUEL, Midshipman. 1758-1830. 

Midshipman on Continental Frigate Trumbull, Dudley Salton- 
stall Commander, December 15, 1 776- December 15, 1777; 
Midshipman on State Man-of-War Oliver Cromwell, Cap- 
tain William Coit, January 20-March 16, 1778. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 598, 596.) 

French, Louis Mardenbrough. 

French, William Freeman, M.D. 

STOWE, STEPHEN. 1 727-1 777. 

Volunteered as nurse to the Continental soldiers confined in the 
prison ships, and died of a contagious disease while in such 
service. 

(Inscription on tombstone at Milford, Conn., erected 
by the State.) 

French, Louis Mardenbrouch. 

French, William Freeman, M.D. 



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TAYLOR, LEMUEL. 1 765-1848. 

Drummer Captain George Terrell's Company, Lieutenant-Col- 
onel Samuel Canfield's Regiment, Connecticut Militia, in 
service April-October, 1779; Private Captain Brewster's Com- 
pany on guard duty, April-July, 1780; Private Lieutenant 
Colfax's Company, Colonel Samuel G. Webb's Regiment, on 
guard duty, October-December, 1781. 

(His application for the pension which he received; 
certified copy of the statement of Wm. Lochren, Com- 
missioner of Pensions, on file.) 

Andrews, William Taylor. 

TAYLOR, ZALMON. — -18 16. 

Private, enlisted May 16, 1775, Captain Ichabod Doolittle's 
Company, Colonel Waterbury's Regiment ; enlisted April, 
1776, Captain Benedict's Company, in Colonel Philip Brad- 
ley's Regiment; was wounded at Battle of St. Johns. 

(Adjutant-General's Report of Connecticut Men in 
the Revolution, pages 69, 422.) 

Herrick, Eugene K. 

THORP, ELIPHALET, Captain. 1740-1795. 

Member Fairfield Committee of Inspection, elected December 
28, 1775; Captain Fourth Company, Fourth Regiment Con- 
necticut Militia, Colonel Samuel Whiting, May, 1776 . . 
; in service at Peekskill, October 5-31, 1777; Captain in 
the First Battalion Connecticut State Troops, Colonel Samuel 
Whiting, November, 1776-March, 1777. 

("Colonial Records of Connecticut," Volume 15, 
page 341 ; State Records of Connecticut, Volume I, page 
67 ; " Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 424, 515 ; MS. Town Records of Fair- 
field.) 

Rowland, Herbert Samuel. 

TREADWELL, DANIEL. 1 756-1815. 

Private Captain Elijah Abel's Company, Colonel Philip Burr 
Bradley's Battalion, Brigadier-General James Wadsworth's 



82 SONS OF THE RESOLUTION. 

State Brigade, June 20-November 16, 1776; taken prisoner 
at Fort Washington November 16, 1776; invalid pensioner. 

( " Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 415, 647.) 

Gorham, John Frederic. 

TREMAN, ABNER. 176 1-1823. 

Private Second Regiment New York, Colonel Philip Van Cort- 
landt commanding; he was discharged on June 8, 1783, and 
was accredited with five years and two months' actual service; 
he. also, at the time of his discharge, was honored with a 
badge of merit for three years' faithful service; he was one 
of twenty men selected personally by General George Wash- 
ington to clear away the abatis that obstructed the advance 
on Stony Point, which was captured by the American troops 
on the night of July 15, 1779; he was with Sullivan's army 
in the Battle of Chemung, August 29, 1779; received bounty 
of 600 acres of land in the present town of Trumansburg, 
N. Y. 

(See Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions; 
copy of certificate on file with application.) 

Wyckoff, Frank Treman. 

TUBBS, DANIEL. 1736 . 

Private Captain Jonathan Hale's Company, Colonel Erastus 
Wolcott's Regiment, December, 1775-February, 1776. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," page 385.) 

Tubbs, William Henry. 

VAN STEENBURGH, THOS. G. 1757 . 

Private, New York Regiment, enlisted at Ulster County, N. Y. ; 
pensioner ; was in battle at Stillwater. 

(See Department of Interior, Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington.) 

Krom, Arthur Guernsey. 



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WAIT, RICHARD. 1711-1790. 

Major Third Regiment of Militia under the general organiza- 
tion of 1775-1 783, being promoted from Captain February, 
1781. 

(Adjutant-General's Report of Connecticut Men in 
the Revolution, page 433.) 

Bigelow, Henry Waite. 

WAKEMAN, JOHN, 2D. 1731-1809. 

Private Eighth Company, Captain Jonathan Dimon, Fourth Regi- 
ment Connecticut Militia; Colonel Gold Selleck Silliman, 
May, 1776; in service in Fairfield Coast Guard October 28, 
1776; Private Fairfield Coast Guard, Captain George Burr; 
in service at Peekskill under Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan 
Dimon, October 5-30, 1777. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 521, 616; MS. muster roll in posses- 
sion of Cyrus Sherwood Bradley, Southport; MS. records 
Fairfield Coast Guard in Pequot Library, Southport.) 

Bradley, Cyrus Sherwood. 

Wakeman, Howard Nichols. 

WATERBURY, DAVID, Brigadier-General. 1722-1801. 

Colonel Fifth Connecticut Continental Regiment, 1775; Colonel 
Connecticut State Regiment at New York, February-April, 
1776; Brigadier-General, 1776; taken prisoner in the action 
at Valcour's Island, Lake Champlain, October II, 1776; ex- 
changed, 1780; Brigadier-General Connecticut State Brigade, 
1781. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 64, 304, 387, 389, 564; "History 
of Stamford," pages 417-423.) 

Waterbury, Harry Guley. 



84 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

WATERBURY, ENOS. 1 761-1846. 

Private Captain Sylvanus Brown's Company First Regiment 
Connecticut State Troops, Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant 
Mathew Mead, June, 1779-March, 1780; Private Captain 
Reuben Scofield's Company Coast Guard, April 10, 1780- 
January 1, 1781 ; Private Captain Charles Smith's Company, 
Brigadier-General David Waterbury's State Brigade, March- 
December, 1 78 1. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 558, 651, 662; his application for the 
pension which he received ; statement of Wm. Lochren, 
Commissioner of Pensions, on file.) 

Waterbury, William F. 

WATERBURY, JOHN, 2D, Lieutenant. 17 18 . 

First Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Elmore's Continental Regiment, 
1776. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," page 114.) 

Scofield, Linus Ward. 

WHITE, EZRA. 

Private Captain William Judd's Company, Third Regiment 
" Connecticut Line," Colonel Samuel Wyllys, April 21, 1778, 
to December 31, 1779; Captain Hezekiah Wells' Company, 
State Regiment, at Boston, Colonel Erastus Wolcott, January 
to March, 1776. 

(Adjutant-General's Report of Connecticut Men in 
the Revolution, pages 179, 383.) 

Rapelye, George. 
WILLIAMS, JOSHUA, Sergeant. . 



Private under Lieutenant-Colonel George Pitkin, Lexington 
Alarm, April, 1775; Private Captain John Durkee's Com- 
pany, Third Regiment, Colonel Israel Putnam, May 8-Decem- 
ber 10, 1775; Corporal Captain Thomas Abbe's Company, 



ROSTER OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS. 85 

Third Regiment " Connecticut Line," Colonel Samuel Wyl- 
lys, formation of 1777-1781; Sergeant Captain Simon Spal- 
ding's Company, First Regiment, Colonel John Durkee, forma- 
tion 1781-1783 ; Private Captain William Stanton's Company, 
Eighth Regiment Connecticut Militia, August, 1780. 

(" Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the 
Revolution," pages 13, 54, 170, 318, 561.) 

Erichson, Charles Burns, D.D.S. 

WOODHULL, NATHANIJEL, Brigadier-General. 1722-1776. 

Colonel Long Island Militia, 1775; Brigadier-General same, 
1776; member New York Provincial Convention April 20, 
1775; member New York Provincial Congress, 1 775-1 776 ; 
President of same, 1776; taken prisoner and wounded after 
capture at Jamaica, Long Island, August 28, 1776, and died 
from wounds September 20, 1776. 

(Civil List, State of New York, Series 1889-91, pages 
113, 452-3 ; "Calendar of Revolutionary Papers," Albany, 
N. Y., Volume 1, page 134; Heitman's " Register of 
Officers in Continental Army," page 443 ; "Archives of 
the State of New York," Volume 1, pages 4, 80, 126.) 

Hamilton, Alexander, Reverend. 

Wayne, Henry N., Reverend. 

Wayne, Henry Townsend. 



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